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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
The best shooting mechanism was the optimized one. Whether it had wheels, or a catapult wasn't the point.
I have seen extremely successful wheeled shooters and catapults as well as extremely unsuccessful wheeled and catapults.
Its all in the execution.
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Now the real lesson is to see that this applies to nearly every year. Great execution can make a wide variety of concepts work at the highest levels. The "right" mechanism depends on a variety of factors - you have to weigh what your team has experience with, what your team can prototype the best, what your team can optimize most easily, what has the right tradeoff between performance ceiling and simplicity, etc.
I think my team should have done a catapult, and that more teams should have done catapults than wheeled shooters. It seems like double wheeled shooters were the easiest to get range and repeatability out of, and they did not suffer as many problems with the goal chains as backspin (one wheel) shooters seemed to, but both could be optimized.