[MCC] Minimum Competitive Concept 2012

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by efoote868

Remove their catapult feeding mechanism, replace their one reloadable catapult with two non-reloadable. I'm fairly certain a team with limited resources could tune two catapults to be very consistant. The point here is that you need to make your two shots in autonomous, and if you don't aim high you won't get picked.

This is not true. If a team hits two low baskets 100% of the time they are more valuable than my robot that always hits one ball in the top and occasionally the second. Several teams including 2168 decided to aim for the middle hoop in hybrid because their accuracy in the middle hoop was much greater than the top hoop and only worth 2 less points. Another strategy for aiming low is that you don't interfere with your partner. At GSR in elims we were on an alliance with two other robots who all claimed to have gone 2 for 2 in the past several matches. We all setup for the start of our match and only 12 points were scored for our alliance because our shots hit each other. A nice feature of going low is that you are out of the way of everyone else. 16 had a great catapult but it was never 100% accurate. I think a lot of people including myself have underestimated exactly how hard it is to reach the top basket. If you are building a minimum competitive robot that just shoots in autonomous you are better off aiming low with high accuracy. I would always pick the consistent hybrid robot that isn't in my way.