Lessons learned in all weeks.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by theprgramerdude

Floor-loading is the key to taking home the gold for the tube part of the game --- no exceptions. If you can reliably pick stuff up off the floor, you save tonnssssssssss of time compared to driving to the pocket. It's even nicer when you can grab tubes in mid-air as they're thrown by the opposing alliances human player.

The key is to be versatile. You will need to be able to pick from the floor and the feeder station. At Pittsburgh Simbotics was quick to make rows from floor loading in the mid field. During the elims, when we played them, we were able to stop their floor loading by getting to the tubes quicker, so they immediately switched to the feeder stations. Althought our strategy did not win us the round, we were able to keep their scores a little lower than others.