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Re: High Score??
Posted by Josh Vetter at 2/19/2001 11:51 PM EST


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In Reply to: Re: High Score??
Posted by Katie Storch on 2/19/2001 8:10 PM EST:



But the multipliers are useless unless you have points to back them up. Two big balls on the goals, on the bridge, is 40 points, if you use up all of your time. We have driven back and forth over the bridge, then balanced on it, without the big balls ever falling off.


: Well, I'll just speak in reference to the big balls.

: I sincerely doubt they are where the real points are. Speaking from the perspective of our 'bot, any team that sets a big ball on top of a goal we balance has about a 50/50 chance of it staying up there. Our robot sets both goals down on the bridge from the ground. The goal will wobble around a fair amount as we set it on the bridge... so it will take luck for it to stay on there.

: We pretty much nixed the idea of the big balls at our first conceptualization meeting. It just seemed too difficulat a task to build a robot to cross the brdige without being top heavy. And of course.. the matter of fitting within the given dimensions.. so it would probably have to fold up, etc. It just seemed too much effort for as little point value as it was worth.


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