What we learned from week 1

[Mike Norton]

I'd rather have two good shooters than a climber and a shooter. Climbers often lack autonomous and top out at around 50 points. That's easily outscored by a robot that does autonomous and hangs for 10. It only requires two loads of discs, a number that's easily achievable.

Also, climbers (from what I've seen) tend to be less reliable.
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We proved that with two good shooter and a good climber you will do well. We knock off the 2nd rank team and the 3rd rank team to make it to the finals. Those last 30 to 50 points are very valuable. If everyone on your team can score 50 points that would be 150 points.

So every robot has it place. We made a climber but do not tell others because they made a shooter it was easier to do. I thought it was easy to build a climber.


Side note we did well do to our new PTO our students built this year. we only used 4 CIMs motors. Two on each PTO. When we switched over to climb we used all four CIMs. Plenty of power to climb fast. Our fastest time to the top was 25 seconds.