Plans for hanging

[Jay O'Donnell]

I know we had a thread similar to this at the beginning of the season, but I figured now that teams are deciding on final designs, I'd ask this question...what is your team planning to do with the pyramid?

[BrendanB]

30 for us.

[Team3266Spencer]

10 unless our hanging team develops a 30 point hanger in time.

[Djur]

30 points here.

[Taylor]

30 points or bust.

Quite literally.

[rinim324]

30 points here, our team quickly realized that a climbing mechanism capable of ascending the 3 levels in sequential order is quite complex and leaves no room for a shooter. We are however adding a dumper if space allows

[Anupam Goli]

I guess the eventual plan is to go for 30 points, but we've yet to design something concrete towards that. I think that's going to go over in the iteration stage. Right now there is a concrete design and fabrication of a 10 pointer, and plans for a 20 pointer perhaps by our week 1 event. We'll see what goes on.

[Mephisto]

We're trying to build our robot very space consciously, and then we will worry about the climber.

[Jibri Wright]

30 points

[TheCrayButton]

We plan for a easy 10. It seems to be more logical considering the game. If you have a good shooter, you could bank almost 30 pts or more while someone is hanging on the 3rd bar.

[DjMaddius]

We tested our 30 pointer yesterday, worked incredibly! We also have a shooter that can shoot in any goal consistently. For once, we can do everything all around quite well it seems! Though it isn't all completed quite yet, it all works flawlessly completed.

[Jay O'Donnell]

So if this poll is an accurate representation of what teams are going to do this season, about 3-4 teams will attempt a 30 point hang this season per match. If that many teams could do it successfully every match this year I will eat my robot.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Jay Money 1058

So if this poll is an accurate representation of what teams are going to do this season, about 3-4 teams will attempt a 30 point hang this season per match. If that many teams could do it successfully every match this year I will eat my robot.

I'll go a step further and eat my entire alliance

I think we'll see on average 1 successful climber per match, but probably 3 failed 30 point climbs. A lot of teams may inadvertently become 20 point climbers.

[Dragonking]

Our priority is the 10. We will make sure we at least have a 10 for competition. We currently have plans for an effective 30 point but we are still working on final design and finding space on out robot. If we can make it work then we will probably have a 30 for out second regional.

[Donut]

I think we have a design that works for 30 point climbing (we know our prototype can climb and transition between rungs, it would just be a question of CG placement), but we decided at the end of week 2 that our shooter would be the priority. The mounting for it coupled with some part lead times for that design mean we're falling back on a 10 point climb now.

I still think this poll is too high with an even split based on the difficulty of the 30 point climb. My guess is more teams will run into the same issues or that some of the climbers won't work quite as well as hoped. Time will tell.