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Re: Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?
We fully intend to have our hurtling up and running for Wisconsin, but at Midwest, where there were a lot of great hurdlers, we could only drive. We could have just simply ran laps with our pretty quick robot, but we chose to play defense. Mind you, we don't defend robots, we defend balls. If a hurdler cannot get to a ball, they cannot hurdle. We ranked 6th not because our alliances could score more points than the opponents, but because we were able to cause the opponents to score less than our alliance. The couple of matches where we opted to not play defense and just run laps - we lost.
Defense cannot win alone, however, as every match we had one decent hurdler on our side.
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WI RPC: 2006 - 2016 // FRC Inspector: '07 (WI), '08 (WI, IL), '09 (WI, IL), '10 (WI, CMP), '11 (WI, IL, CMP), '12 (WI), '13 (Northern Lights) 2007 WI Woodie Flowers Award Finalist // 2011 Wisconsin Regional Outstanding Volunteer // 2011/2013 Midwest Regional Chairman's Award
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