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Post This year's creativity goes into getting the goals...

There wasn't a lot of robots hitting robots because the goals were in the middle between.

As soon as a match start, the robots went after the goals. So each team will try to get their goal from their side, and robots don't get to run into one another that often.

Sometimes the robot got the goal, turn back to get it filled with balls, and went robot forward toward the other side. Even when that happen their opponent went from the side or the back to grab the goals with their goal grabbing devices. Not a lot of robot hitting each other because of that.

Teams want to get the goals more than playing defense. Because it is risky to have the goal near the opponent's goal zone while they head for home zone. So they decided to try to score the goals instead. A good strategy, I think. A saying I heard: "The best defense is doing offense." applies in this game.


Also, teams did have a lot of creative ideas this year, only those ideas were for dealing with goals.

There were a lot of different goal grabbers, some can only push, some can pull goals with them... Some can let go and some can't... Some lift up goals, some have drive motors under the grabbers. The thoughts put into this were proven to be important. Just look at the finals and see how many goals were stolen by opponents off of the grabbers.

And the creativities of making an extension really pays off at the end. If you have one functional, you could stay out controlling the goal while opponents fight with you in the middle... Some extension worked because of how smooth they move around the field, some didn't because they were blocked by a goal...

Even thought the winner of KSC regional didn't have extensions on their robot, I would still argue that an extension will help out a lot if you can get it working.


Well, either way, I thought there are a TONS of creative ideas out there, and it did pay off and help robots do better in matches.
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