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Originally Posted by tenfour
I didn't see a thread of such thus far, so here goes.....
What does the game this year seem to really boil down to? And resulting, how would you describe a winning robot or winning gameplay?
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I don't think any one single robot can have a winning strategy. Even if you are an unsurpassably godlike team like Chief Delphi (your robot...HOW?), you cannot win a game in the 2 minutes that you have doing all the things you need to do.
The best strategy is to make the best use of your alliance that you can if you are fortuitious enough to have a match made in heaven. Take Team Force and Hyper 69, for instance. Our robot can efficiently and quickly gather up to four balls at a time and deliver them to the human player. Hyper 69 can cap either goal and hang. Now, Hyper 69 is undefeated, as their unique design almost guarantees them well over 50 points by themselves (their human player is very good--Joe, you da man). And while our team is probably not going to win a match all by our lonesome, we can very easily facilitate a team with capping abilities.
For instance...on the Thursday practice session, everything ran smoothly. Our robot knocked off the ball release, and Joe and I combined to fill up both goals as our robot delivered 20+ balls to us. Hyper 69 capped the stationary goal and then hung as our robot made sure that the other teams did not cap their mobile goal. We scored
well over 200 points.
Today, when everything didn't go as smoothly, we won 95-90--and that was without Hyper hanging and our robot breaking down near the end.
You just really need to hope for a good alliance partner. This is a game where one robot cannot do everything--again, not merely because of technical limitations but because of time limitations as well.
--Petey