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Originally Posted by Pavan
Please do not give Dave ideas!
Anyways, this year the game involved robots stacked which was supposed to teach us about the real world and communication and coordination. Well, I think that if there are four on four matches next year or in future years. YOU WILL have to communicate and coordinate on an exponential scale of what we have to do this year. Think about, on top of this year's bonus, a 50 point bonus for a bot 15" high. YES I said it, 1 bot carries 2, that bot gets carried under another. Maybe it is not that reasonable but you get the idea.
MORE team members equals more real world skills. Now how many real world skills are there? When you give me an answer you will answer the question of how many robots on the field there will be!*
Pavan.
*Notice I did not say alliances.
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I really liked that idea! This kind of competition opens a whole new type of strategy into the game. Teams, who are no longer in alliances, will have to start commnication bonds with other teams in order to have the same goal with eachother in order to have each team build the proper robot for the case that they will play together. This is really more challenging.
The idea of one robot hold 3 robots(on of them holding two others) sound a bit out of a Sci-Fi books, but, hey, things from Sci-Fi became real after all, but all I'm saying is this will be more difficult. The decision of what kind of robot will you make will decied what kind of teams you should be with, because your robot won't be able to do one or some roles out of the 4 given(being lifted by the lifted robot, be the lifted robot that lifts or the robot the lifts 'em all).
I guess that all the building and scouting time will have to be longer, so hopefully IF(I'm not quite sure if I want it to or not) FIRST uses this concept for next year's challenge they will give us a longer period for the building process.
It's my team's first, but I believe we will be able to counter this challenge. Good idea!
