pic: 2013.5 Mock Game Pipefall

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by ablatner

Looks interesting. I'd get rid of the Kinect and change hybrid to autonomous though. The Kinect and hybrid was pretty useless in 2012.

It wasn't useful in 2012 because that game didn't require movement in auton and you started with most of the game pieces that you were going to have in auton. You also had very limited time and only one per alliance. We think with a game that encourages more movement in hybrid we could see teams take advantage of the alternative interface to the robot.

Originally Posted by ablatner

Also, what's the point of different height scoring poles? It looks like scoring on the 10' ones is worth the same as the shorter ones.

They are worth the same. The idea is that the more scoring pieces that are scored the harder it is to score them. That means that instead of what happened in 2011 teams are encouraged to score higher at the end of the game not the beginning (similar to 2005). Teams can decide to score only on the lower poles but eventually they might all be full so having a robot that can go to the high poles on your alliance may be useful.