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Originally Posted by magnets
I could see a robot that was entirely a mechanism to grab containers from the center being very popular at the championship (if they can get there!). If it always won the center step race, or would always have enough force to pull the containers to their side, it would be able to cap the maximum stack score of any alliance significantly lower than I expect competitive alliances to score.
A robot built to do only this is attainable for a decent number of teams, but I don't know how many teams will be crazy enough to try it.
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I don't trust any robot that can "get all four recycling bins in the center before anybody on the other side can get one." There will be very strong robots that can very quickly - during autonomous - get one recycling bin off the step. To think that you can get four before anybody else could get one is foolish.... With that thought, what happens if one of the four bins you are clamped onto during autonomous gets grabbed by a strong robot that can put all it's "pull" into that one recycling bin - and has an advantageous center of gravity? I can visualize the "4-bin grabber" getting yanked right over the step and out of commission for the entire match. And, it would be penalized with a foul....
I'd have to really see such a robot perform consistently before wanting to go into eliminations in St. Louis with it as an alliance member.