Question:What strategy are you going to use?

[lich101]

What is your idea so far how your team will win on this competition. What strategy that your team will use. Will it be speeding around the tracks score points? Or will it be to hurdle or herd the balls. Whats your stategy? Whats your team's idea to win this competion? Why am I asking this? Because I'm curious

[GMKlenklen]

My team has the awsome advantage of starting a week late. why? Because we are a boarding school, and we all return on the 13th of january. Our strategy is to wait untill some of the notoriously decent teams at our regional event have started to build, then ask them what sort of robot they would like to see on thier final aliance. Then build it.

This is the only "good" I can see coming out of this late start. Now to e-mail all the teams at the Kansas City regional!

[Jon Stratis]

Our strategy is to score more points than everyone else at the regional, and failing that do prove ourselves as a true team player that can bring a ton of value to any team out there As for the specifics... you'll just have to wait and see!

[Tottanka]

Fast driven hurdler, with an option to place a trackball on the hurdling.

[lukevanoort]

Ours is pretty simple; do everything, and do it fast. Simplicity on the far side of complexity is wonderful!

[Team2339]

1. Robot moves 10 fps @ 11.5 volts
2. Robot can bump ball off goal
3. Robot can put ball back
We are going to build in that order so no matter what we can compete.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Team2339

1. Robot moves 10 fps @ 11.5 volts
2. Robot can bump ball off goal
3. Robot can put ball back
We are going to build in that order so no matter what we can compete.

So you don't want those 8 points?

<G09> During the HYBRID PERIOD, each TRACKBALL that is removed from the OVERPASS (i.e. completely removed from its initial TARGET LOCATION and not in contact with any portions of the OVERPASS) at the end of the HYBRID PERIOD will earn 8 points.

(emphasis mine)

[cwood]

our plan so far is to be fast really fast, have some way to remove a trackball from the overpass, and finally hurdle the trackball at high speed

[Trav-O]

here's a strategy: get a chicklit, get a n64 controller, and get your star mariocart enthusiast behind the wheel

[redtide]

yeh i like that cus if we did that i would be driving Ya for wasting time playing N64

I think we are running a bot that can go fast herd and hurdle with the ability to knock the ball don and put it back up at the end

[EricH]

Strategy: Attempt to win every match. Failing that, get picked by the dominant team at the regional.

(Hey, it should work...assuming that one or the other happens.)

[Team2339]

8 points is 8 points. If the Hybrid works, we will take it. If not, we will zoom around the track as far as possible in hybrid and cross lines to get points. We might also want to get out of the way of a more capable alliance partner and let them knock the ball down.

[Urban Hawk]

if our robot is anything like our robot last year ( and as long as this year it works... ... then we should be able to reach up to 15 miles an hour and in addition with our mecanum wheels, we should be able to out maneuver the other teams.
We'll try to knock the ball out during the autonomous mode to get early points then for the rest of the match use our speed and control to our advantage.

P.S. last year we took out some of the tiling on the walls of the cafeteria with our robot. call it.... destructive art