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Small balls in 2001 competition

Posted by Patrick Dingle at 04/29/2001 4:33 PM EST


College Student on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University.



After reading some of these posts about the game, I think the game could have been given another dimension if they made small balls worth more than one point. Almost all teams decided not to design their robots to handle small balls, since they were worth so little, and humans could load one goal anyway.

Now say the small balls are worth three points, and that the four-team alliance only has 10 balls in their human player station. Now, if there is a robot that can quickly load a goal with about 6-8 balls, then that's another 20 points or so. It would also make a much more interesting combination of robots. Instead of having balancers, wedges, and big-ball handlers, we would also have small-ball handlers.

If we do stick with a 4vs0 type setup next year, then I think the game can be made better by making these different scoring options (e.g. big ball, small ball, balancing) all worth relatively the same amount of points... Even if this means removing multipliers, I think it would make each match different, depending on the alliance, and would be somewhat more exciting to watch.

So say we do keep 4vs0 for another year... Regardless if you like 4vs0 or 2vs2 better, how do others think the 4vs0 can be improved?

Patrick


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