[falconmaster]

Call us crazy.....but we feel that if you need to cross the bumps then you are loosing the game. If each robot is doing its thing in their own zone, you don't need to leave it. We hear that many teams feel that the tunnels are easy to block, so what if they are. If the opposing team is blocking a tunnel then they leave another function in their zone open. We feel that you need to think of this game more like soccer and less of an engineering problem. You play position unless you see an opening then you can take the risk of leaving your position. We could be totally wrong, but we feel that the losses due to engineering a bot to go over costs in other capabilities of the robot....I guess we will see. We also see stopping a robot going over a bump as a fairly easy task. If you move your own robot so they can't complete going over and then move your own robot when they are pressing up against yours can possibly make them loose balance and then fall or tip. The key to wining soccer is a good midfield that can feed the balls to the striker!