[Boltman]

Originally Posted by 3175student17

Honestly, its not a no-brainer. And there is a non-zero amount gained from being a non-low bar robot. Unless you have a robot that shoots with a high release point and collapses down to get under the low bar, your shots can be blocked very easily by a tall robot, and due to the higher vertical distance the boulders need to go to make it into the goal, there is a smaller window for shot variability. Also, having a non-low bar bot gives electronics team members an easier time when building, and diagnostics will be easier. Also, not going under the low bar makes a hard task (scaling) a little bit easier to design for.

I'm not saying that low bar bots are worthless.There are definite advantages to using the low bar. I'm just saying that there are significant drawbacks that a team should consider instead of thinking the low bar is a no-brainer. To add onto that, if it was a no-brainer, you wouldn't see powerhouse teams answer 'no' to the original poll.

We've taken into account all the game rules and are confident that being low is an asset and not a liability. Lets just say we are not highly concerned by high bot blockers. Guess we will see who wins Einstein...

I'll bet super fast and accurate low bots will represent as captains this year versus high bots.

There is nothing except for potential defense that a high bot offers when it comes to scoring .... if its playing defense its not helping their alliance score or get RP. We have been a defensive bot, it works sometime if in the perfect location.

Last year high was the most effective design (Stack 6 from HP) there is no such design mandate this year except the lesser point value low bar , all we know is a traditional high bot cannot go under a low bar thus a liability there.

Will be interesting to see what actually happens.