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Re: most feared thing

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Originally Posted by Tyler Olds
Here is what I see winning:

1.) A robot who can catch all the balls while its partner triggers the bonus ball

2.) A robot who can get on the bar immediately and de-cap the 2x ball (if needed).

These two simple strategies I will fear the most. I fear even more an alliance who can do both of these, for I believe that they will be unstoppable.
Just remember...no one is unstoppable. Logically, every team has a weakness - our robot, for example, can't handle the movable goals at all. Beyond that, no robot is immune from mechanical problems. Battery becoming unplugged, wire being ripped out of place, a puncture in the pneumatics system...these can all doom a team to failure if they aren't caught at the right time. It's best not to get me started on programming - I've found (firsthand) so many ways to screw up a robot that it'd take days to list them all.

Every robot can be beaten...it's figuring out how that's the fun part.