[Boltman]

Originally Posted by mman1506

I don't uderstand the love for picking up gears off the floor in this thread. Unless you have an amazing floor pickup picking up gears from the floor still takes time, maybe less than if you were loading from a loading station but time none the less. I wouldn't be surprised if a well practiced gear scorer was able to to go to the loading station, grab a gear and score it before an average robot could score one picked off the ground next to the airship.

In 2013 two of the world champions had intakes during regional play and removed them for championship even though they were necessary for a fairly common high scoring auton. It's not like ground intakes were undervalued that year either considering there were ultra competitive teams who only had the option of picking up from the ground (2056 notably)

I think you might be underestimating Vision and defense..... going to exact same spot is of course a tendency and you can be if you are very effective at gear collection that tendency will be used against you and slow you down a lot when you need 6...at least with floor the pickup point will be different and you could have several gears laying on floor pretty sure you can chuck the gears out at a high rate forcing them away from the retrieval area and being more unpredictable in picking them up

Only downside (with scoops) I see to floor pickup is trying to no get messed up with balls which will be prevalent