Shooting full court?

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by PizzaBoxZombie

From all these videos being posted of shooters shooting further than the length of the field accurately, how many cookies were you planning on giving out?

No one's called me on it yet, and I don't expect them to. Those shooter videos are poor simulations of game conditions. They are perfectly lined up, with no robots and pyramid in the way, and those shooters don't have to worry about defenders. We won't be seeing that much in actual game play (and never in regards to the pyramid).

Also, looking at last year indicates that few robots will be able to pull off full court shots. Given, frisbees are more consistent than those awful foam balls. Last year, we saw a fair number of full court shot videos, and essentialy no robots that bothered to shoot full court. But, it's a lot more possible to shoot full court this year, given the aerodynamics of frisbees. So I suspect that we'll see a few teams that shoot full court.

The 30% comes from my belief that it's just hard to hit a target acurately in FRC. Simbotics had a percentage around 60% last year, usually at very close range. Half that seems like a reasonable number.