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Re: Palmetto Regional Week 0.5

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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
This is the most logical sequence that I envision teams would be doing. Less wasted motion and accomplishing both at once.
Unless of course if youre like Team 118 that can Dukes of Hazard just about anything. No need come back via the low bar, other than not trying to wear out your robot.
I think the main reason that teams aren't relying on this strategy is that they want to guarantee that they will get the ranking point for breaching. Picking up and scoring boulders can take some time. It's better to at least get the one ranking point for breaching rather than attempting to get two/getting extra points for scoring boulders but risking getting no ranking points at all. At least at Palmetto, if you can breach, the points you get for crossing defenses is usually enough to get you the win.
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