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One of the more interesting things that I have noticed is that all of the top robots are either scoring robots or ramp robots. There is not any really strong robot that has both a ramp and an arm. That really surprised me considering the number of teams with both a ramp and an arm.
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I beg to differ. Team 948 (top seed after the first day) is primarily a ring-scoring bot, but also has a ramp. Not the best ramp in the world, but we had bots climb it in a couple of matches.
(The top of the robot is 13" off the ground. We had planned to have a ramp on one side and a "table" on the other side, both drop-down, so we'd be able to hold two robots at 13", but we ended up leaving off the table for weight reasons; instead, we just riveted on a couple of plates to keep robots from rolling off the other side after climbing the ramp. So we can only score 30 bonus points, not 60. We
could in theory have a robot climb onto our back and then carry them up another single-robot ramp... at least, our drive team claims that the drive is strong enough for that... but I have a hard time imagining that happening in a real match!)