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Originally Posted by SSMike
Just something that I forgot to ask: For those of you that voted "Something else" on the poll, what did you mean? I would love to know...just to see what what you thought up.
Thanks!
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The three teams I have/am working with are all making both bots, ramp and arm, it is quite feasible.
I am a huge supporter of playing defense, check out the elimination matches in Boston, defense was the strategy that worked best for us last year. However the fact that we won Boston it was because we were picked by the two most dominate bots, if we could shut down 1 bot on the other team they could out score the other two. The problem with playing defense is that you won’t seed well; you need to be paired with high scoring bots to win. You are much better off building a bot with a good scoring mechanism (arm) and a powerful drive train. You are not guaranteed to get picked if you are just a ramp bot. The 60 points are not guarunteed, the last two years there were pretty easy ways to score at the end of the round (in 2005 there wasn't even a ramp) and allot of matches alliances just couldn’t do it. If there are 8 bots at Rochester that can score even 2 or 3 tubes and can be an effective ramp, you can almost guarantee that a pure ramp bot won’t be picked.
If your team could use some help especially with the strategy portion of the game PM me, I am over at RPI, I don't have a car but I could get over there a couple of nights to meet with you. I talked to your mentors at the RPI/GE FLL competition