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Re: Robot Diversity
The GDC has a lot of tough jobs, and deciding how to value the different means of scoring is one of them. If teams decide that the points earned aren't worth the cost (time, weight, risk, opportunity, etc.) then they won't do it and design diversity will suffer.
I don't know if the GDC has a goal in mind, but the end game usually seems to be worth 20% to 30% of the match total. With Breakaway, it seems that they anticipated low scoring matches when they assigned only two points for hanging. We built a hanger, but it really stunk. We determined that we were better off trying to kick goals in the last 20 seconds and we took it off. Had it been worth more points, we would have tried to make it work.
The diversity of the designs is affected by the risk/reward equation.
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NC Gears (Newaygo County Geeks Engineering Awesome Robotic Solutions)
FRC 1918 (Competing at St. Joseph and West MI in 2017)
FTC 6043 & 7911
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