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Re: What do you think will be important this year?

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Originally Posted by DMetalKong View Post
Having the opportunity to time the ball return at Manchester today, it took about 7-8 seconds to pick up the ball and place it on the track, and another full 7-8 seconds to roll down the track and onto the field. Theoretically then if you were continuously scoring you could get 7-8 balls a minute, maxing out (including autonomous) at 22 points for a match.
That means that in the time it takes all three robots to get on to the tower (lets assume 15 seconds), if the opposing team can score about six times, which means that hanging either ties or beats it (3*2 min. and 2+2*3 max for two robots hanging off the first, as opposed to the 6*1 of shooting).