[ZInventor]

I'm the primary driver for our team, and we just had a scrimmage yesterday.

It taught us a lot, like, if you want to turn really sharp, you can't. the closest we got was starting a sharp turn, then pushing the joystick forward a bit.

we have a 4wd NARROW base, skid-steer chassis, and it seems like that was a bad idea, as it seems a lot harder to turn.

even so, the regolith impaired everyone a lot more than they expected, and even the big, wide-base bots were really easy to push around (it seems like wide bases turn better, but narrow bases push a lot better.

we also saw a lot of shooters die. they seemed to completely loose accuracy once the bands in the balls started breaking (by the end of the first scrimmage match [on a half field, only 3 bots] EVERY ball had at least one band broken, and by the end of the third match, most had 2 or 3 broken)

another thing we noticed, was that shooters seemed to jam alot if the bands in the balls broke.

just my $.02...


-Z