Thread: how effective are the herders/dumpers?
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Re: how effective are the herders/dumpers?
Herders and Dumpers, or in my teams case a low shooter, have one ENORMOUS advantage. They nearly always win autonomous mode. The simple reason for this is that shooting all ten balls in the 1pt goal is far easier then getting at least 3 balls in the 3pt goal.

My team arrived at its 1st regional planning to concentrate on the 3pt goal. However, due partly to complications getting up the ramp, we scraped our entire 3pt-shooter/turret-assembly to make us less top heavy. Believe it or not we actually started doing better when we started concentrating on 1pt balls. By simply aiming our robot sideways before the match and firing up our 1pt shooter we were able to win autonomous mode on numerous occasions.

Winning autonomous mode was one of the primary abilities that squeezed us into the finals.
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