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Re: 2007 in relation to 2011
Mechanically the rack has another big difference.
The plates which terminate the scoring rods are MUCH smaller than the big 5" plates in the 2007 game
They are 2.75 inch diameter disks.
It will be quite a bit easier to bump a tube off by mistake.... and if you expect to place a tube by pulling back and reacting with the plate (as many teams did in 2007) ... you will pull the tube right over that small plate. (It's radius is only 1 3/8") not much for the tube to react against.
Tubes will have to be dropped on to the rods... and then the mechanism will have to be removed with great finess...
Another big difference is the direction of scoring. MOST scoring in 2007 was done directly in front of the driver's station ...and the tubes were loaded from the same direction...
This year.... long field... tubes enter the field from entire opposite end of field.
Definite similarities but large, subtle and not so subtle differences in game play.
I think the game dynamics will be quite a bit different...I can see robots that are scorers playing defense while a team mate shuttles the objects to them...
last 30 seconds or so will be dominated by minibots... so relatively short 1:30 time to put tubes up...
I like the mix of autonomous points and a later effect from autonomous...in points...
auto is BIG deal...good autos will win these games...at least at St. Louis
Autonomous in 2007 was marginal... fun to watch... but really didn't make much of a difference in the end...
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