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Re: Gears on the floor?

There is a LOT of conjecture in this thread, and no one has provided photos or other evidence from experiments at the human feeder station. I won't provide ours, but rather, encourage teams to do MANY of their own with every game piece that can come out of the station. 2013 "kind of" applies, but there was only 1 type of game piece so it was easy to prevent. Same with 2015, unless your human players made huge mistakes.

Also, like usual, the team field drawings are missing a critical component that mimics the real field: the wall goes straight down from the feeder station. There is no recess. This is important for your experiments.

There will be a lot of miscommunication between a drive team and the human player that is 50 feet away, behind 1-2 airships, and also has 2 panes of semi-reflective plexiglass between them. Gears will fall on the ground.

If you want to be an all-around bot that mimics the Ri3D teams' gear intakes, then don't do the experiments and don't worry about gears on the ground. It is likely the (apparently exceedingly rare) great gear bots will form an alliance without you.
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