Level 3 Point Upgrade for Champs?

[tinybob20]

Originally Posted by GBilletdeaux930

I don't think the problem is in the scoring. I think its just in the faults of the robots themselves. If a robot spends the entire match climbing, that turns it into a 3v2 match essentially. A 50 or even 30pt contribution is much better than the average score (~41) divided by 3 teams (13pts). But when you spend 2 minutes to do just that, or worse, do it in 30 seconds but that 30 seconds happens to be immediately after autonomous, you hurt your alliance.

I would disagree. I feel like that 30 points is more than enough to give you a advantage over the other alliance. And, it's *almost* un-defendable. I found that while other robots had to potential to score much higher, such as full court shooters, they were also much easier to defend against. Coming from a team who won a regional with a directly-after-autonomous climb, I felt the easy, safe 30 or 50 points guaranteed a repeatable and higher score. That being said, I also believe that without support from some good shooting/defending bots, a climbing robot will not be as effective.