[EricH]

Originally Posted by ggoldman

Each team has 21 Tubes (9 tubes on the field, 9 in home zone, 3 for autonomous)

There are 24 spots on the rack

- - 0 0 0 0 0 -
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

you have a total of

5 x Rows/Columns of Two = 5 * 2^2 = 5 * 4 = 20
5 x Rows/Columns of Three = 4*2^3= 4*8 = 32
1 x Rows/Columns of Five = 1 * 2^5 = 32
2 x Rows/Columns of Eight = 2 * 2^8 = 2 * 256 = 512

Bonuses
2 x Robots Lifted 12" = 2 * 30 = 60
(this is assuming you do not have an unpowered anti gravity machine for the 3rd bot)

Grand Total = 20 + 32 + 32 + 512 + 60 = 656 points!

Hope that helps!

*Edit ..miscounted tubes originally...fixed now !! *

Still miscounting in the rows. The correct pattern is:
3 rows of two--3*4=12
5 rows of 3--5*8=40
1 row of 5--1*32=32
2 rows of 8--2*256=512

Total rack: 596

Add 60 points for lifting 2 robots: 656.
Right numbers, wrong values. The correct score for the pattern listed (with the 5 rows of 2) is: 664.

Now, will anyone get 656? Yeah, right.