I guess I'd just like to throw out my ten cents on this...
During the early days of brainstorms, someone on my team shot up the idea of, "Hey, let's bulid really long arms and block both chutes. We'd win guarenteed."
Though I don't think that's a completely true statement, it would be a very worthwhile strategy in many cases. However, I looked among the members of my teams and simply said, "We're not going to play the game that way."
In my opinion, some things are great strategy, and some things are just dirty. Building a robot that can just sit with two arms and block chutes, in my opinion, isn't in the spirt of the game. Nor is developing arms that are make to pull robots or hooks off the bar, neither is intentionally tipping robots off the 12" step...
The strategy is just so vast in this game, I can't believe that people are whining that they're not allowed to make a robot that just moves across the field and sits for 2 minutes blocking both chutes. If you have the engineering talent to build something like that, you can easily do a little hanging and ball manipulation to PLAY THE GAME along with the rest of us.
Imagine how boring basketball would be if there wasn't a shot clock. It seems to me that some people would just sit on the ball for the entire game after they got a lead. They'd win 2-0...
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Originally Posted by Some Random Guy
"Hey Matt, it's called strategy."
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I'm aware.
However,
in my opinion, blocking both chutes for two minutes is a really lame strategy considering the AWESOME amount of strategy that can go into this game.
Don't be lame. Play with the rest of us.
My dime,
Matt