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Unread 09-01-2010, 23:13
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Re: What do you think will be important this year?

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Originally Posted by Tetraman View Post
Neither the tunnel or bump will be an effective mode of traveling from one zone to another. How do we move from zone to zone? You don't, at least, once you get your robot where you want it - you keep it there, and let your mechanisms do the scoring for you. One robot moves balls from the midzone to the alliance zone, and a second moves balls of the alliance zone to the goal. It's that simple.

Why you would need extra robots in a zone is, currently, beyond me.
For a robot in the opposing alliance's zone, getting back to the middle section might be important, depending on their goal.

Also, if there is only one robot working a zone, it might be quite easy to block balls from being passed from one zone to another.
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