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Re: Picking up balls or not

I think that what is critical is to come up with a strategy for your team.
Assess what your resources are... can you build 2-3 different mechanisms?
Can you build 1-2 mechanisms? How much money do you have?

These all play into picking a strategy.

In ANY strategy ... being able to pick up balls is going to be a plus.
NOW that said, It is NOT a requirement for many strategies.

Don't try and use AIM HIGH as an example because human players did not score in AIM HIGH... and the other major difference (also pointed out already) is that the balls were recycled... so if you were getting scored on ..you had plenty to load up your robots...

But AIM HIGH IS a good example of the diversity in robots and how several different strategies can be employed to help an alliance win.

Pick a good strategy...figure out what it takes to accomplish the strategy...
Prioritize your mechanisms.....
Make hard decisions as the weeks go by...

but Pick a Good Strategy... stick with it and make it drive your design.
Please Please Please... don't mix up mechanisms with strategies...

Design cannot drive strategy...

It is my belief that there will space on the field for a number of good strategies...some of which don't require picking up the balls from the floor...

I also think that several very sound strategies depend on picking up balls from the floor.

thanks and good luck !!!
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