I wasn't saying their shooter isn't precise, it could be for all I know. Just a word of caution to people trying to infer off the video. They only show a few shots, and with camera cuts. This could be a perfect shooter, it could be a mediocre one.
Teams really need to prototype and prove this for themselves to be truly confidant in their ability to perform.
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Originally Posted by Tom Line
I suspect you will see much much higher accuracy in this game. The game pieces aren't highly variable, and from 15 feet away there is one magic rule for these frisbees: the faster you fire it and the harder you spin it, the more accurate it will be, and the less drop (or more rise) you'll get.
Go back and look at 2006, where you were shooting into a vertically oriented goal instead of trying to bank things in off the backboard. That should be a more accurate representation of accuracy, and top robots that year were absolutely deadly (85-90%).
Prototyping shooters is absolutely key (if you plan on being a shooting bot).
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Not only did they have higher accuracy in 06, but they were able to shoot MUCH faster than 2012 due to this.
In any case, don't beat yourself up over it. Only 24 teams get to play in elimination rounds. Sometimes you're in the 24, and sometimes you aren't. - jgannon [more] 
07-01-2013, 12:43
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