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Posted by Thomas A. Frank at 1/10/2001 6:46 PM EST


Engineer on team #121, The Islanders/Rhode Warrior, from Middletown (RI) High School and Naval Undersea Warfare Center.


In Reply to: Take that - all you doubting Thomas'
Posted by Raul on 1/10/2001 6:30 PM EST:



Hello All;

Which means that the maximum possible score (NOT that this is possible, just a theoretical number):

- All 40 black balls in the goals (not very likely...it doesn't look like they will all fit)
- One goal also lying in it's side (how the balls are magically staying inside is beside the point, not to mention how they are also not touching the floor out the lower side...mere trivialities); thus there can be 4 big balls on it's side - 40 points
- four robots in the end zone - 40 points
- the stretcher in the end zone - 10 points
- the goals on the bridge - 4x
- in under 30 seconds - 3x

for a total of 1560 points, plus 10% bonus, for a grand total of 1716 points.

Will it happen - no.

But this does give you a feeling for how you are doing once you game out your strategies.

Does anyone consider 600 points a reasonable objective?


Tom Frank