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Originally Posted by hg273
Update from Autodesk Oregon:
Not a single team has hung yet through 61 competition matches
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That almost scares me. Here at Kettering there are about 3-4 robots that can consistently hang, and only 1 out of the top 5 ranked robots hang.
I know as a team we try hanging every time, and we're only 1 of 2 teams that does that
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Originally Posted by 1986titans
Teams playing defense may not always be able to cross the bump, so it may not be strategy for them.
Penalties are very costly in this year's game. There was a team today that got down to -4. Yes, it only counts as 0 at the end of the game, but it is a large deficit to get out. There were a lot of matches lost to penalties.
Most robots probably were not sitting by choice. Most were disabled, and a couple of stations seemed to have problems more than others. It's probably just the "week 1 cobwebs," but things seem to be moving a lot smoother than last year.
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When strategizing this year we found that a majority of the "defense bots" this year did so because a) they couldn't traverse the bump and b) their kicker didn't work. Unfortunately a lot of these robots didn't want to be "defense bots" initially...
And this is certianly the year of the penalty. One team in a match this year racked up 11 penalties due to a kicker malfunction. Fortunately their alliance didn't score so it didn't hurt them.
And I have to agree with you on the field issues. There were matches where 5/6 robots were disabled because of field issues. When we first started today we had to program all of the radios twice because of field issues. Due to that there was only
1 practice match. Hopefully week 2 will run much smoother!