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Re: The ultimate game breaker bot.

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Well, if you have both of your teammates in the scoring zone, all the opposing alliiance has to do is get all of the balls into its scoring zone and not score them. If you have one scorer and one defender, then I can pin the defender between two of the three robots and generally just stall, scoring everything in the last 30 seconds. Neither of us will get good RP, but you'll lose the match.

This is assuming the hanging robot works perfectly.
It's not impossible to un-hang (harder, but not impossible).

I don't see the big deal with them not scoring. I doubt a ball has enough oomph to be directed from your opponents RETURN to your alliance's scoring zone. I'm much more comfortable with the idea a robot can hang in front of it's own RETURN making balls their alliance score go straight back into their zone.

I think it will be a non-trivial task to score multiple balls in a short amount of time, even if they are all floating around in your zone.

Ideally, this robot will hang in autonomous, so their really isn't any defensive strategy for it. The other alliance just need a really skilled defensive bot to kick the balls out as soon as they come rolling off the chute into your scoring zone.

I'll bet a cookie that 190 is building this exact robot (probably with the ability to suspend the rest of their alliance too), so hopefully we'll see how it fairs!*

*Based exclusively on the fact that this is the coolest, strategically most interesting robot I can think of.
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