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Re: 2007 VCU Regional

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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54 View Post
There are also plenty of teams whose robots either don't work quite how they intended, or who find that they're much more valuable as defense (eg. 1281 at Waterloo last year).
i think this years competition was a lot more complicated than last years as far as building a bot that could do everything (which is what we did) ... we barely fit our building into the 6 weeks and we didn't have as much time as we would've liked as far as actual driving practice. in retrospect i think that keeping it simple, like awkward turtle did by just building that ramp bot, allows a team to score a lot better if they're teamed with alliance members who specialize in other areas. however, there are way to many variables as far as ramp-only robots go. how do you know that the teams you're allied with have planned to be able to climb ramps at all?
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