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Originally posted by Solace
Thanks for the clarification.
However, you obviously didn't attend the UTC Scrimmage. In 3 out of the 4 finals rounds that led to victory, teams 571 and 173 failed to get to the ramp first (mainly due to not yet having autonomous mode programmed in). We won because we were able to a)move large numbers of the opponents bins into the no-acore zone and b)outmanuever the opponents on the ramp.
I will agree with you that this would not be a likely outcome when facing a robot like 68 or 179, but it shows that losing the initial battle for the wall is not necessarily the end-all. (although its always nice to get there first).
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No, I didn't attend the scrimmage (but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express?
)...I saw the video, though.
The one thing I am definitely reserving judgement on is the autonomous mode. I don't think the programming was in a state to be judged at that scrimmage.
Believe me, I don't think that king of the hill robots can't be beat. In fact, I'm banking on most of them getting creamed. But, overall, I'm just disappointed with the way the game's been playing out.
Rather than "descore" the opponent's bins, why not take them with you? By pushing them out of scoring position, you can manage to control the score, but all destructive forms of scoring lower the matches net QPs. The real winners are going to be the people that can keep the scores close, but do so by
adding to their score while they're lowering the opponent's score.
That's my feeling, anyway. Or, it'll be a complete wasteland and bins will mean nothing at all.
We probably agree about more than you think. After all, our robots aren't too dissimilar.