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Unread 20-01-2007, 20:53
Dianna Bartone
 
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Re: Ramp bot vs. Arm bot

Here's what I'm thinking: What if your goal is to build a robot with an arm as its main attribute, but you're team is feeling ambitious and decides that if they can lift two robots 4" off the ground, that would make the robot that much more desirable. So you build the bot and you do reasonably well in the qualifying matches, but you still need to be picked by someone to play in the elimination round. If the top-placing teams are looking for a good ramp bot, wouldn't they want one that can lift the robots 12" up, making the ramps superfluous as a desirable feature?
How likely do you think it is that the top teams will want a 12"-lifting robot on their side?
Do you think that some would value 4 inches and an arm more than the above or do you think that a robot like this will have to rely on simply their arm to get picked on an alliance?
Will the points that a robot with 4" ramps wins off of them in the qualifying matches be enough to make the ramps worthwhile?
Just something else to think about...as if we needed more...