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Originally posted by Solace
I think that its a big mistake to assume that a stacker is intrinsically slower than a KoH bot. Actually, it seems to me that it would be exactly the opposite.
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(Another dangerous assumption to make is that a team that can play multiple roles will accel none of them)
The moral of the story is that a bot shouldn't be judged by what role it plays in the game. Each team will behave differently under different circumstances no matter what their intended purpose is.
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I wrote that poorly. What I meant to say, I think, is that any team that's relying on getting on top of the ramp first, and stackers in particular, aren't going to do well.
If you can manage to get the bins to your scoring zone, you're in good shape. But, to me, it seems like everyone's putting all their eggs in one basket with their design and strategy. You either get to the bins first or you don't. There's very few teams that have shown anything that can reliably tip the balance of the game after that wall has come down.
I hope that the teams who have chosen to keep their robots hidden are doing so precisely because they have such designs. If our robot were designed to reliably control the score regardless of where the majority of bins land, I'd not have shown it. In fact, maybe we didn't
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I do believe teams can excel in more than one role, but not likely at the same time. Again, I just think that too many teams decide to
let the matches be decided in the first 15 or 30 seconds - without really considering whether or not it needed to be.