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Originally Posted by MikeFinn
Based on posts by other people on Chief Delphi, it sounds like a lot more teams will be attempting to score in every way possible than in the past. I was a little startled when I saw that many teams will be attempting to score in the high efficiency boiler, score gears, and climb. I made this poll just to see how many teams are actually planning on doing all three.
I'm aware many teams will say they are attempting to do all three and that may not occur on their final robot, but I'm still curious to see the replies.
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This is about what it sounds like every year, it's just that some of it fades off before it's actually implemented. A lot of it doesn't, unfortunately. It's why we spend so much time begging people to consider what they'd pick as an alliance captain. You choose: Robot X with an inaccurate shooter, unreliable climber, and slow gear running; or Robot Y with fast gears and/or a slow but reliable climber, and no shooter? Because if you think you're going to field a top-tier high goal shooter with the autonomous routines to match and a 7-cycle gear runner and whatever awesome climber, you are wrong.* If you
know that's what you're going to do, congratulations on all your past success at the walk-before-you-run levels of robot design and I'll enjoy seeing you on Einstein.
*If you think you're going to build a sort-of-okay climber and gear runner and floor pickup and on and on, good on you for honest assessment, but why?