[Solace]

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Originally posted by M. Krass

I believe that, in some regionals, stackers will manage to survive. If they can get a multiplier that does something beside give them victory. . . that is, if they can get a majority of bins and make a stack . . . that will greatly help their seeding. But, I don't expect it to happen often. When they're up against a king-of-the-hill robot that's faster to the punch and stronger, though, there's not much hope for a good stacker.
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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.

Take us for example. We knew that we wanted to focus on stacking,so we wouldn't need massive amounts of pushing power. Gearing up our 4 motor drive did cut into our available torque, but now we have an unbelieveable amount of speed and agility. Robots like ours aren't going to win any direct shoving matches, but - unless an opponent you can go 13 ft/sec - we'll probably hit the wall first. Besides, the most efficient way to get onto the ramp is not to bully the other guy off, but to go around him.

(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.