Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by dodar

1. It should have been relatively easy to do.
2. Almost every year, the good teams have been able to get game pieces off the ground or from HP(2012,2011,2010,2009,2007,2006,etc..)

1. That depends greatly on your strategy and design.

2. Blatantly false. Very few teams (let alone "good" teams) loaded directly from the HP in 2011 or 2012. Fewer still could do both (especially in 2011). The HP didn't even load robots in 2010 (unless you're counting the mandatory ball return, which was only directly interfaced by a handful of teams, and never to "load" their robot). 2009 was a mixed bag, but most HP took the opportunity to score directly over loading a robot. Almost nobody human loaded in 2007, and none of the elite teams did with regularity. 2006 is the only year you have a real argument for great teams doing both, but a majority picked human loading as their primary method, with several being exclusive human loaders (25 and 217 being the obvious examples).