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Re: The math of the cans...

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Originally Posted by Jared Russell View Post
I think something along the lines of "any robot may touch no more than one can that is in contact with the step at any given time during autonomous mode" would have been a better rule. It would have GREATLY increased the strategic aspects of robot placement, autonomous strategy, design (you could still build a robot to get multiple cans, but it must do them serially rather than in parallel), and still rewarded teams for iterating on the fastest can grabber.
Yes I agree that would have made a more interesting game. Allowing alliances to choose to have 3 robots grab cans instead of just 2. I think this would have led to very hard calls by the referee when a robot hit two RCs in quick succession and just knocks them instead of grabbing them it hard be hard to tell if they were ever touching both at the same time.
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