Inbounding or Hoarding Balls

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by SteveGPage

A minimum of 4 are available to a team, there could be more, though, due to the extras, if there are any, being placed on the Coopertition Bridge.

[G05] Each Bridge will be preset with two Basketballs. Basketballs allotted to Robots that are not used, will be preset on the Coopertition Bridge.
(emphasis mine)

I believe that the highest number of balls on the middle bridge could be 14 balls
2 to start
and 6 more from EACH alliance (if no robot on the field puts any on their robot) 2 per robot not using them... 3 X 2 X 2 alliances

That being said... IF a robot can shoot and come back to the middle and get balls... they could only control three before they shoot.

Even with a Kinect controlled Hybrid Auto Robot... I would think any team would be hard pressed to shoot 2... go back and get three and shoot them and then come back AGAIN for 3 more and shoot them in 15 seconds...so I would imagine that the realistic limit for score during auto would be

36 plus 18 which would be 54 points

Now IF one robot could do that autonmously... and another Kinect robot could grab 3 more balls and shoot them...after the autonomous robot scored 3...you could possibly have a score of 54 + 18 or 72...

That would incredible... the only problem is that it would require the opposing alliance to put at least 4 of its 6 balls in the middle. (to get to six extra on the middle bridge side)...

If I were on the opposing side against an alliance that COULD do this in an elimination ... I would find a way to put 2 balls on each robot...

I think during eliminations we will be looking at max scores of
36 plus 2 middle balls or 48 points...for the reason given directly above.