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Re: Using hoppers in autonomous?

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Originally Posted by SpadeSeveren View Post
An idea being thrown around is to have a "chaos bot". This bot would dump the hoppers in the beginning of the match to not only deny those points to opponents, but also create obstacles on the field for less sturdy drive bases.
I was thinking about this as well. If your opponent doesn't have good ball pickup, an auto that simply dumps 3 or 4 hoppers would be huge.

Even if they won't get stuck under bumpers, it'll still be really annoying to travel around the field with 500 5" balls rolling around.
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