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Originally Posted by MrForbes
I doubt we can do 5 or 6 or 7 gears on our own (and in qualifying, on our own is how we figure matches will go). So, the first three gears are worth 80 points in teleop.
Fuel....high goal....that's equivalent to 240 fuel, eh?
I love the gears.
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Given that the reserve gear means every team gets that first 40 point free, if your alliance can't score 6 or more gears in a match, you're spending the ENTIRE MATCH to score +40 points. +60 if you auto the first gear. If you don't have a fuel mechanism and you're figuring you're on your own and can't hit 6 gears, your effective contribution is 2 gears for an entire match.
Which means a fuel bot with the the simplest gear mechanism that scores 2 gears and 9 low fuel beats you. Auto gear gives you a +20 cushion so a fuelbot has to score 2 gears and 63 high fuel to beat you, but still.
A robot with a passive gear mechanism, a successful "drive straight into the lift in front of you" auto and a fuel dumper is probably going to win a surprising amount of quals matches. Even more with a climber, which is looking rather easy.
Unless you expect to be a quite efficient gear bot, you ignore fuel at your peril.