Thread: Climbing or No?
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Unread 11-01-2017, 13:54
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Re: Climbing or No?

It seems that nearly everyone (197 of 206 currently) is responding that they will be climbing.

Last year a similar poll (https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=143735) had above a 60% yes response rate to climbing the tower but the end scaling rate didn't even hit 6%. This was taking into the account the easier access that year to scaling designs through Ri3D and COTS components.

While I agree that endgame is more valuable this year than last, I would be very surprised if overall climbing rate this year surpasses 20%. I imagine that a lot of teams will run out of time to complete climbing devices or find it too difficult and opt to focus more on gear and goal scoring.
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