Best Feeder Bot of 2012

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Siri

Agreed. 4334 is a good defender of both robots and balls, but it seems to me they don't come close to 207 or 125, etc in throughput (certainly not even approaching 16). Our scouting reflects this, though it's not comprehensive.

That match at IRI that dodar's talking about is a great example. Watching balls constantly shot back and forth across the field was incredible and really only topped by showdowns like the 207 vs 16 on Einstein. I can't think of any matches like that involving 4334? For defense yes, but not really for feeding?

I guess this sort of makes me realize that I've been thinking about regular defense along with feeding. While looking at all of the youtube videos I could of 16 and 4334, I realized, at least feeding wise, 16 is better. On another note, we played against 125 in the Battlecry Finals, and they unfortunately stopped working part of the time. This got me curious about what they could really do, so I found some videos of them in battlecry and watched them in IRI, and they are a very good feeder bot. I also did see 207 and were impressed by them. Notice how 3 of the 4 teams I have mentioned made it to Einstein, which goes to prove a great feeder can really help an alliance.