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Originally Posted by BotDesigner
What is terrifying about this is that it could be cheesecaked on almost all stronhold robots. I bet cheesecaked scalers like this are going to be a familiar sight come Champs.
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I strongly suspect you haven't tried to add a hanging mechanism to a robot that wasn't designed for one within a 6 hour window before! It's quite difficult. Getting the hook onto the bar is the easy part. Dropping in a winch, ensuring that winch either pulls from the robot's CG or from multiple points on the robot, keeping the robot level on its way up, and programming make this a nontrivial task. I'm sure it'll be done once or twice, but this won't be commonplace, particularly for short robots.
The other reason this won't be seen that often is that your second pick this year actually is really valuable and needs to play the game well, whereas in 2015 you could pick a robot that was a lot worse at playing the game in exchange for a robot that is easy to cheesecake.