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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
I strongly disagree. By adding the floor pickup the MCC also becomes a reasonable contender for being the middle bot in a 3 bot no truss cycle. Still worth a fair number of points. It's a tactical flexibility that is simple enough to add to be worth it.
Typically floor pickups are considered a nice to have, but with only one game piece they become more important. Oh, HP inbounds bad, or robot is hit and misses getting the ball? Suddenly you're out an assist.
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"Simple enough" is the assumption I find debatable. Even if a team builds an intake that works, their driver has to be able to get to the ball. A whole other issue for many FRC drivers...
We modified many alliance partners to reach the MCC level, and they competed better not only in our match together, but many other matches after that point. Modifying alliance partners to reach MCC was critical to seeding first this year.
Pickup ability was never a goal of ours when working with alliance partners to modify their robot. HP intake was always a requirement.