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they are going to matter.
Posted by Ken Leung at 2/13/2001 5:49 AM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Re: Robots and Small Balls
Posted by Dodd Stacy on 2/13/2001 12:04 AM EST:



It just logically makes sense that a team is going to head for the other goal right at the beginning of the match. It's a sound strategy because 1) you get to score 10 pts in the end zone easily, 2) you can help push the far goal toward the bridge for balancing both goal, 3) it saves lots of time from trying across the field later in the game.

So, any teams that pick this strategy can easily incorporate a small ball collector device that can load up the far goal easily. The fast that they don't have to cross the barrier makes it much easier to raise small balls 7" high in the air.

And as I said before (look at the post below), small balls are probably going to matter in the finals. It doesn't have to worth 80-100 pts... it just have to be one point more than the other alliances to win the competition.

As for the near goal, it just make sense that human players will be filling it up with black balls. Maybe in a match, a robot can push the far goal toward the human players to load it up fully, but I am not sure how fast that can be accomplished.

Plus, just the look of two fully loaded goals balanced on the bridge is going to be amazing.



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