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Originally Posted by 3175student17
Something people are forgetting is that if you have a low shooter, due to the nature of virtually no safe zones besides the outer works, all that a team has to do to block you is strap pool noodles onto a kit bot and your shooter is rendered useless.
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And a lot of people seem to be dismissing the natural 'safe zone' created by the batter and tower itself. Our thought process was 'why shoot from far away when I can drive right up to the tower, wedge ourselves on the ramp and take a close shot?' See 2014 robots that wedged themselves against the low goal and the corner of the field.
We are doing the low bar and so far haven't ran into any major issues. I think it's accessible to a lot of teams with a little planning, but it definitely requires some thought & testing to package everything well.