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Re: Why the low Gear love

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
You also need partners to actively cooperate, supporting a gear with their robot that drops to the floor in some way in a predictable position. Gears can't touch the floor as preloads, right?
You just need 900's game piece vision tracking. Then 2-gear and 3-gear autos are totally doable .

More likely, I expect the gear specialists are going to get their partners' unused dropped gears in the opening seconds of teleop. If 2 gear specialists are on an alliance I fully expect at least one of them to have crossed far into the neutral zone during autonomous, so one is down field while the other picks up a gear. If autonomous collisions are avoided, the alliance could easily be half way through the 3rd rotor in the opening 10-20 seconds of teleop, and that's just with 2 robots executing it.

On that note, this is the first year since 2009 where opposing alliances may legally collide during autonomous. The true coopertition will be coordinating with opponents to make sure robots miss each other .
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