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Originally Posted by Chris27
This years game was aimhigh. It was about finding inovative ways to use cameras to shoot balls through a hoop. We did that and so did most teams at St. Louis. I am not saying that they were not somre really great robots at St. Louis. I just don't like it when some teams ignore the objective and rely on brute force battle bot type robots whose main objective is to take down other peoples robots.
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The main objective is to score more points than the other team. You took the "score more than them via the centre goal" approach, while your opponents apparently took the "deny them the ability to score, while scoring a little" approach. They're both valid strategies. A robot that can dump 45 balls into the 1-point chute is just as good as one that can score 15 balls in the centre goal. You can't really expect to make an immobile, defenseless ballcannon and win, because the game is more complex than simply getting balls into the centre goal. Note: I'm not saying your robot IS an immobile, defenseless ballcannon, but if it has trouble with getting blocked and your opponents exploited that weakness, then they had the better strategy.
Don't let it bug you too much though. I imagine if you ask most teams, they were ALL "almost going to nationals, if it wasn't for those meddling (refs|other teams playing unfairly|small team size|sudden problem|unfavourable rule interpretation)". And I say that as an alumni of a team that was chronically thinking we had an unstoppable robot, if only those other teams and pesky rules didn't get in the way. You gotta adapt to adapt to those problems and play through them. Everyone is disappointed when they don't go to nationals, but only a few teams from every regional gets to. You may have had the best shooter, but other teams probably had a slightly worse shooter connected to a better chassis, or had better tactics and earned their way to finals. I remember in 2003, one of the best teams in a game about stacking at the Toronto regional was a team that was actually incapable of stacking.
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I'm sure you would too if you put the amount of time into it as we did.
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Working 3:00pm-10:00pm every night is pretty much the norm. We would typically work from 7:00am to 11:00pm (excluding school hours, but we might get called out of class) at 1141, and at my current team (1281), it's about the same. Neither team had access to CNC machines, and at 1141 it's basically team policy to not allow adults to touch any component destined for the final robot. It always hurts when things don't turn out the way you want.