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Originally Posted by Scythe

I honestly don't think our use of the HPZ zone is at all detrimental, in fact, I think it's an advantage. I estimate that our time in the zone on average is about 7 seconds. Where as most teams take a bit longer at the AZ. We can do this consistantly at around the same speed, and so far, without a single HP penalty I'm happy to say.

ok it all depends on the robot if the human loader is faster. i remember once in Midwest we picked up a tetra from the auto zone drove over to our home middle goal and scored it in 7 seconds. while some of the great teams love the human zone (71and 648 off the top of my just woke up head) there is other great teams that go to the auto zone and do it so much faster then the human zone. if the team is like us, can drive to the auto zone,pick up the tetra, dive to the goal, and score it in 7 seconds, and it takes a human player 7 seconds to run to the robot, place the tetra and run back, then i think that the auto loader zone is way better. the auto loader zone has almost no penalties for your team also. the human player has a 10 pointer, a 30 pointer, a penalty that can disable your robot. in my opinion the bad out weigh the good for the human player zone.


Steve