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Re: broken robot DOOMS an alliance

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Originally Posted by jerry w View Post
If a robot does not start moving during autonomous, it remains in the launchpad. The opponent payload specialist has 20 moon rocks ready to easily toss into the trailer. The toss is less than 3 feet to a fixed target.
If all the opponent's robots move, they are harder to hit. Simply keep moving, and let the score accumulate, but you will have an extreme difficulty overcoming the 60-point offset!!

Jerry
Look at it as an incentive to help out your alliance partners and make sure they're working before the match.
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