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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
I would be extremely surprised to see a team with no autonomous capabilities this year. Also I dont think the trailer would even fit much over 16 moon rocks (even 16 is a huge score)
I think there is more worry for a broken robot in the middle of a round than for a robot without any auto program.