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Originally Posted by CraigHickman
Huzzah for generalities! My opinion on the bot was VERY specific. Let me address these concerns, as I may not have been clear enough...
Speed IS the most important thing. When I say speed, I don't mean raw FPS, I mean cycle time, from gathering, to lapping, to hurdling. The teams that are able to do this fastest will win.
I believe I said something along the lines of the most practiced shooters being the ones to win. These low, fast bots that we'll see will rarely miss; in fact, they'll have the power of their shots dialed in so precisely, they'll be able to throw at just the right power to remove most possibility of the ball going out of play.
Again, in my original description, the winning bots are going to be able to knock the ball off with a simple mechanism (heck, a stick with a pneumatic attached can do this really well, why make anything more complex to do the same job?).
All of the shooter bots I've seen have a very strong grip on the ball.
Think of it from a drive perspective... You can either have around 10 functions, and have to worry about precise placement, or you can drive by at high speed, and hit the "bang" button to score. Much easier, right? So why do anything else?
One more thing... If the other alliance gets a ball up onto the overpass for the ending points, what's to stop an experienced shooter from hitting said ball with theirs, from below the overpass? It's all about practice, and being able to gather the ball FAST after shooting.
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You seem to misunderstand my points.
I have no problems with shooters, I will say they are the best bots in the competition, not taking anything away from them.
My point about speed was based upon the slowest bot on the field. Shooters can't shoot with a robot in the way, shooters can't keep running the track with a robot in the way. The fastest BALL will win. How the team moves the ball around the slower bots, around the traffic jams, around the flipped bots, is not something a shooter can do, and if it can then so be it, but from what I see, all shooters seem to have a very short gripper.
So if the shooter is slowed down by the other team, to the point of being as slow as an arm bot (I have seen some fast arms this year) then which has the better chance?
As I said, I don't think you can rely on 1 bot this year, and shooters try to get everything done on there own. (or so it seems on the videos) The lack of precision will not allow for ball passing across the middle to avoid a traffic jam in the far corner, will not allow for you to knock balls out of the other teams grippers, and other strategic moves.
As I said teamwork will win this year!