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Re: New VEX Game Announced!
As it's far from likely that I'd be involved in VRC in any way (barring the college team pilot thing), here were some of my impressions skimming the rules.
I can easily see some sort of uber-efficient small ball collecting / hopper bot being a very valuable partner. Those are the only balls you can score that your opponent can't score back at you, and you get 18 not even counting the balls between the divider if those are hard to access. You can scoop 6 up in autonomous, and then go ahead and collect and score em in the high goals for a nice 54 points ! The tricky part of course is that the goal is across the barrier, which ruins my Syntax Error "Hopper that uses the side of the triangle goal to support the balls before it gets to the top" design.
The football scoring impact is misleading; they matter twice as much as their score indicates, since they are also removed from your opponent's total as you add them.
It's too bad there are no Vex pneumatics so that you can't have some kind of "Ball Puncher" that picks up balls and launches them across the field.
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Last edited by Chris is me : 03-05-2009 at 23:41.
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