[oreocookeee]

i realize my post was very one sided. i wanted to support the side that i didn't expect many people to take. im just trying to think outside the (gear) box. im sure there are a ton of exceptions to everything i said, but i stand by my assumptions and generalizations.

i know that controlling the robot usually isnt a problem for the experience programmer and driver, but a rookie or inexperienced team may have trouble controlling a bot with a max speed of 12 ft/sec. this is my team's third year and we are still learning as we go along. our robot last year was meant to lock onto a stack of up to four bins, but partially since the robot had to be precisely lined up, we only managed to pull it off once.

as for crossing the field, some robots will be crossing but i do think that it will be at a smaller frequency than last year. last year, robots started on the opposite side, crossed back to gather bins, then ran across again to knock down stacks (again, this is a generalization, and a bad one at that). this year i would not expect robots to make the circuit across the field and back more than once, if at all.