How will your team score?

[Bob Steele]

How will your team attempt to score?

Human player only?

Dumper (In contact with the opponent's trailer)

Power Dumper (short range shooter up to 1 meter)

Shooter (greater than 1 meter range)

Some other method?

After a week of deliberations what are you trying to do?

[Akash Rastogi]

Well we have our designs down, prototyped, and sitting in the room. Haven't decided yet.

Main ingredient in each mechanism....





...magic! and a crap load of luck.

[smurfgirl]

My team will attempt to score quickly, and accurately.


Actually, in all honesty, I'm not fully sure of the mechanisms. I'm in another state for the season (college), so I'm not exactly number one in making decisions, y'know? Last I heard it was a combo of shooter/payload specialist. But who knows what they're up to now.

[ZakuAce]

We've pretty much decided on a rotating power dumper. This will be the easiest and most reliable way to score, from what our testing shows. Shooting it from +1 meter shows that it is quite likely, without a lot of arc, to bounce off the center poll. Granted, this is us throwing balls at our trailer. No real way to tell how successful a robot will be until you build one.

[Donut]

I like that title, "Power Dumper". Our human players will be shooting but we mainly intend to score through an overwhelming torrent of moon balls.

[waialua359]

Our main scorer for 99.9% of our points will be from the HP.






























Ok, just kidding. Turret shooter.

[danshaffer]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Our main scorer for 99.9% of our points will be from the HP.


Ok, just kidding. Turret shooter.

good to hear... you had me scared for a sec.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I prefer the term "shotgun" to power dumper...

[Enigma's puzzle]

I was going to ask myself the same question

[Thermal]

We managed to recruit every member of our high school basketball team. We plan on having tryouts and the best shooter (percentage after 100 balls shot) will score for us. Our bot will just collect all of the balls and shove them back to the human player throughout the game. We think this is the best strategy overall due to the slick floor.

...Just kidding. We got a Powerdumper/Shooter hybrid going on at the moment.

[Bob Steele]

With 66 votes in ... we are pretty close to having the same number of dumpers and shooters...

We had considered the term shotgun but the team likes the term

"Power Dumper"

We had also considered using the term "Enhanced Dumper"

The reason we didn't use the term shotgun is that would be a slightly different strategy which broadcasts the balls in a wider spread... unless of course you have a "choke" that can reduce the spread of the "shot" (balls).

This could be fun..........

[Mac Generals]

our team will actually be using human players for most of the scoring... alot like how thermal described actually

[Ryan Caldwell]

what are some of the scoring rates people are estimating?

for example our power dumper should off load at ~10 balls a sec