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Re: Support Robot Concept

The idea of a feeder robot is solid. Basically in it's simplest form, the feeder robot's job is to either gather tubes from the field or from its own human player and drop them in the alliances scoring safe zone. This allows your big scorers for nonstop scoring.

Now, the best way to do this IMO is literally hanging onto game pieces and moving super fast so that no matter what, the game piece will always be in the possession of your alliance.

Like this launching method (if it worked) it might be faster, but it's easily defended. Teams would recognize this and you would not be picked because of it. So I do think the feeding option is excellent, but launching tubes I don't think is the best way of going about it.
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