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Originally Posted by AnnaCC

Although running across the field to get fuel isn't ideal, we'll probably doing it anyway for gears, and if alliance partners cooperate to collect fuel from hoppers simultaneously (keeping as much off the floor as possible) we figured it wouldn't waste much more time to run across the field than run around the launchpad chasing balls.

I recommend you think about your strategy for each stage of the competition. If you don't attend highly competitive regionals you should assume qualification matches will not have much FUEL being scored in the BOILER. That means there will not be much FUEL available after the start of teleop for you to use. If you face a strategic team they will dump all hoppers in the first 15 seconds of the match and make you try to outscore them at their game (I know teams in my area are already going to do this). In other words your great shooter may have about 1 hopper of benefit.

A very good High Efficiency GOAL scoring robot will be hard to build. If you are devoting that much into a great high goal scoring robot I would not want to only be fed by a HOPPER. Even at the Championship level I think winning alliances may have 2 GEAR focused robots. That means you would need to be the only shooter and after the first 20-30 seconds all you can contribute are the FUEL that has already been made and cycled back by the opposing alliance. So if you shoot 100% of their made shots you kept up.

Again this all depends on your team's goals. Think about what those goals are and the best robot to get you there