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ZZII 527 · #7 28-03-2006, 01:28

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Originally Posted by nifty

i don't know if i can speak for the herders, since the onle ones (my team's bot included) at the BAE were herders by necessity and not choice - when multiple systems leave you hanging, sometimes its all you can do. my team designed our bot to be a collecter/low shooter, but ran into problems with our shooting mechanism and ball release mechanism, so we ended up doing a lot of herding.

dumpers on the other hand, totally win my approval. i know team 97 and 213 (did i get the number right? i know they were the "dirty birds") both made it to the elimination rounds at BAE, and gave our team a lot of trouble whenever they were on an opposing allicance. our driver was great at defensive manouvering, but we just couldn't effectively stop the two teams i mentioned. this is a lot coming from a team whose bot held teams like cocoa beach and the t-hawks to almost nothing in our defensive rounds.

at the beginning of the build season, i wanted to build a six wheeled dumper, but we went with a more complicated design instead which proved to be our downfall, but that's life. props to 213 for their omnis, too. they were my favorite bot at BAE.

Do you mean Boston?

213 and 97 were at BAE as well and had a pretty good showing. 1547 and 549 were also very impressive low-goal scorers in Granite State elimination rounds, hitting 10 almost every time in autonomous.

I think this game was particularly well-balanced; the 3:1 point ratio is perfect. Low goal scorers can make the difference in low-scoring or close high-scoring matches, and they are often able to sneak in while the shooters are being defended.

We went into the quarterfinals at Boston with two dumpers and one shooter against two shooters and one dumper. We pulled off the win, but it can be attributed most to an entirely different scoring mode: getting up the ramp. As others have said, the distinction between shooters and dumpers isn't as important without considering the complete package (herding, ball-storage, defense, ramp climbing, etc.)