[Justin M.]

We will most likely be going to the end. Our bot is going to be a high scoring, offensive bot. Highly manuverable and able to score on all spider legs...however I wouldn't trust our manipulator to lift another robot.

Depending on alliance partners, we will be continuing to score, or place/remove spoilers till the last buzzer. However once again this all depends on our alliance, rack scoring position, number of keepers scored in autonomous mode, and current spoilers on the rack. If one of our alliance partners can lift us, then we will probably be going for the bonus points. I think the consensus at the competition will be that spoilers won't be implemented onto the field until the ~ the last minute of the game. Putting your spoilers out on the field early in the game is very risky and would waste time. If both teams put the spoilers out early in the game, then that gives an alliance the oppurtunity to negate up to 4 ringers. No one alliance would want to take that chance, so the spoilers would need to be implemented near the end of the game, possibly while the opposing alliance is busy in their home zone trying to get bonus points, and won't be able to remove the spoilers. Ideally, to place as many keepers as possible will be the autonomous strategy. A keeper should be in the "middle" of the rack scoring combo, so at worst a spoiler could not completely negate a 3x1 or 1x3 row into singletons.

This years game is all based on in-game situations. Strategies can only be formed to an extent. The strategist must be able to alter strategies in a matter of seconds, which goes hand in hand with keeping tabs of the rack.

Rack n' Roll is a lot like playing offensive football. You choose a play, set up, but before the snap the QB must look at the way the defense is set up. Based on the defensive setup, the QB would need to be able to call a quick audible and then hope it executes better than the intended play.