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Originally Posted by cait.schroeder
Many people are saying low, but I disagree, your robot should not be very high for center of gravity reasons, but a low robot really limits your building space and your ability to do missions. Also a low robot may be at a disadvantage when pushing doors and such such as the Sally Port and Draw Bridge. Your robot should be somewhere in between. It also depends on the skills of your team, if you are able to make a low robot that can achieve many things, go ahead but if you can't and you are doing it just for the low bar it is not worth it. But this is just my opinion.
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Teams should build the robot that best matches their goal, strategy, and capabilities, whether that's a tall robot, a low robot, or somewhere in between. Likewise for capabilities. Personally I'm not of the opinion that there is a general set of characteristics that will define the robots that win at regional events this year-- there are far too many valid strategies, some of which include going under the low bar, some of which don't involve many obstacles at all.
As always, teams have a tendency to overestimate their capabilities-- this year more than any other in recent memory making that mistake could cost a team dearly.