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Re: The burning question: How many ringers can your team REALISTICALLY score?

I don't think we put up (by our selves) more than 6 in any round at PNW regional. Once we showed that we were could score quickly, the defense got very heavy (to the point of breaking our gripper twice).

We know that, unopposed, we could score 8-9 in 2 minutes. The strategy of the opposition (and the cooperation of the alliance partners) really makes the actual numbers hard to predict.

The other consideration is what you will do at the end period? We tended to go for our rampable partner in preference to hanging a last ring. This eliminated about 15 seconds from our time to put rings on the rack.

A lot depends on the location of the tubes to pick up. In several cases, the human players were able to throw the rings in front of the robot when it was ready to reload, resulting in score to score times of less than 10 seconds.

We are working on editing our video from the PNW regional (including clips from a camera on the robot itself). I'm sure we will post links when they are available.

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Originally Posted by hybridp0pper425 View Post
we put up 7 in a match at the PNW regional and we realistically got like about 5 every round