[ALIBI]

Shooters have the advantage. Most arm bots will have to stop moving before they can hurdle the trackball and they are limited as to where they must be in the home zone (close to the overpass) when they lift and hurdle the trackball. A good shooter will be able to hurdle the trackball on the fly from at least a third of the floor space in the home zone. Several people have talked about a shooter not being able to pick up a trackball as fast as an arm bot. I believe that you will have shooters that can pick up a trackball just as fast as any arm bot out there. Placing the trackball is way over rated. Given the speed of a shooter vs an arm bot that places. The shooter should be easily able to get more hurdles than an arm bot to make up for a single 12 point placement. Also, you will never see a shooter get clothes lined by the overpass.

IMPEDING: Preventing or obstructing an opposing ROBOT’S ability to proceed around the TRACK in the direction of traffic.

As for blocking a shooter, all a shooter has to do is head directly towards the blocker, just before it gets to the blocker, veer left or right and launch, if the blocker moves to get back in front of the shooter, the shooter just earned negative points for impeading.