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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
Before everyone scraps thier design and gives 254 the championship trophy, remember, you just saw a 7 second clip of them unloading a hopper full of balls into a stationary goal. How many times during the year do you think they will be able to fill up thier robot and empty it into a stationary goal? Just about as many times Kyle Boller throw the ball from his through the goalpost from 50 yards out in the NFL; impressive but won't win you many games. How well does it load? Does it ever get jammed (for all we know this is the tenth take), is it fast enough to even get close to trailors? Is it good at avoiding other teams from scoring on them? I'm positive the other aspects of this robot is just as impressive, but just remember there probably will be more ways than win.
Anyway, great looking robot as usual.
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How well does it load?
Look back to 2006. I don't think their hopper is any smaller than it was back then. My feeling is that teams with the capability to pick up balls from the floor and human player will opt to use the human player just like they did in 2006.
A team as smart as 254 would have certainly spent the time to train a human player to near perfection to take keep the drivers' hair from falling out while trying to chase down balls on this rigolith surface and to do it in a timely fashion to keep them from being a big old target.