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Re: How many gears will top 10% of robots be capable of scoring in a match?

6-7 will be the consistent top for gears cycling this season (with consistent 6-7s maybe occasionally breaking that in a match). It could see some of those teams reaching that range at their first event. However, it will be so rare that I don't want to answer without checking who's playing in Week 1. I don't expect there to be any dark horses in that group at first events. We will know their names.

Caveat 1: The big issue here is that teams capable of scoring 6g7 gears often won't, because the last few won't be useful depending on who else on your alliance is running gears. So even when these folks do play, it probably won't show up in their typical scores/OPRs until later when they regularly have another reliable gear runner on alliance. Fortunately the OP thought to ask about capability in a match.

Caveat 2: On the other side, I do expect top gear runners overall to do somewhat better than top 2013 frisbee cyclers, because other folks will drop gears. If you count scoring drops, I could see fluke matchups that make this sort of range look easy for top gear specialists with floor pickups. There will be teams with bad gear mechanisms in early qualifying matches that're shoving gear after gear through the feeder slot to no avail--and the opposing top gear specialist will say "why, thank you, I was hungry too". You could see all 18 hit the floor and 12 picked up in really lopsided games. I doubt, however, that many gear specialists will get that lucky when they really need it (e.g. the guys they're worried about losing to in elims shouldn't be dropping often anyway). So that one is difficult to quantify if not to envision, as it really relies on knowing who else will screw up.

Anyway. As for how many gears the bottom-ranked gear robot in the top 10% across all Week 1 events will score? Nothing like any that. I voted 3-5, and I doubt it'll be 5. Top 10% is a massive range for Week 1.


As far as top gear robots turning to shooting in teleop to get 40kPa, maybe. But if you're a 6-7 cycle gear robot capable of getting 40kPa, you're probably capable of getting most of it in auton.
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