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Re: 2 gear autonomous

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
If you can convince an alliance partner to give up theirs and somehow support it fully and drop it in a reliable manner, go for it.
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Originally Posted by euhlmann View Post
You just need the partner to have the gear half on top of their bot, so that when auto starts it slides off. You'd need a floor gear pickup of course, but after that, finding the gear on the floor shouldn't be too hard considering that it's bright yellow
There is some use and that is playoffs. Lets say one robots places their gear. The other robot can do a two gear auto while the other robot is a high goal shooter. The high goal shooter can immediately drive to the hoppers, dump it into their robot and start shooting in autonomous. This will easily get you alliance over 40 kPa in auto for scoring the fuel and 20 more (or a RP in quals) for the fuel. Meanwhile the two gear auto robot has placed their preload and placed the shooter teams preload. That is 120 points from gears, and another 60 from fuel for an 180 point autonomous. Keep in mind the fourth rotor is worth 140 points in playoffs.
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