[Boltman]

Originally Posted by Captain_Kirch

The low bar is the easiest obstacle if you fit, and most teams fit. Low bar capable or not #1 robots likely won't use the low bar because they're hitting the defenses their partners cant.

This is further supported by the way these early competition number 1 seeds get the number 1 seed, breaching. Right now, great breacher = high seed. We've yet to see teams that can capture consistently, maybe those teams stick to the low bar, or maybe they do it all. Who knows?

The problem with capture is a HG is 5 or LG is 2 ..... a cross twice is 10 so all top seeds get there by A) more points and B) an easier RP...cycle times are faster on breaching bots than HG shooters that take time to line up shots or have to go all the way to the LG...so in every regional the breechers will for the most part be captains .... and any hybrid breech/HG shooters but they will be mid alliance captains. That leaves out bots that only shoot to be lapped up in alliance selections and "fed" in eliminations. Excellent breech/HG like 179 are so good they will be #1 ...but that is very rare so far. I expect this week3 we'll see another 179-level or two

Glad we are a great breacher low bot that can shoot/feed and scale we guessed right what qualities would work this year. Very glad we can "do it all"except HG so far as it wasn't "needed" much or worth the risk of wasted time on miss..it helps immensely in this years game. we learned a lesson last year we must be able to score ourselves a lot of points no matter what partners we have...seems to work so far. We'll see this week how round two goes. Each year we apply past years learning..hopefully next year they finally listen and finish the bot in week 4 to get practice time in.