09-01-2010, 12:33
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761 Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 803
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Re: Breakaway Discussion
There's going to be a ton of variety and clever solutions to the various problems this year.
I think the center zone will be key. You need to score from the center zone to be effective.
the 3-point hanging robot will not be very common, but adding lower hang bars for other robots to grab will be a nice way to encourage it.
Shorty robots that can go through the passage and are fast will be a big one. I hope some teams use the vision system to align to the floor stripe too, since fittting through that space will be tough.
Teams should also make sure all the other teams have something to prevent caught balls on top of the robot. There will be a lot of penalties for that particular issue.
My $0.02
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