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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Not a fair comparison; in 2007 half the pieces started on the floor, lined up along the diamond-plate.
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But just as in 2007, I don't see the feeding slots being used very much at all. Human players should opt to just throw them out there, probably to about midfield is the farthest possible. This decreases the time it takes robots to retrieve and allows you to load them onto the field much faster. I also don't see much competition for pieces between alliances since there are enough to fill all the grids.
For these reasons, picking them up from the ground is vital to our strategy. It's even affecting our drivetrain, because we're not worrying so much about speed as just maneuverability in our half of the field, because we don't need to go the 54' to the feeding slots.