Corner Climbing, The best strategy of 2013?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Gregor

Not true. Many climbers were painstakingly slow. It you're climbing on one of the faces you're in my way as I try and shoot and traverse the field. If you're only a 30 point climber, I'd much prefer it if you climb on the corner.

True but when teams design their robots they need to remember to be flexible. During strategy sessions this year teams looked at us like we had 5 heads when told them we needed the back side of the pyramid to do our 30 point climb and a lot of teams would ask us if we could forgo our climb since it blocked their one and only shooting position. This of course didn't fly with us because we only needed that spot at 30-35 seconds which for most teams we encountered was only enough time for one more cycle. Yes face climbing does take up the most common shooting position this season, but in strategy teams need to be flexible because there is more than just shooting frisbees involved with the game. Shooting from the back of the pyramid is easy but my 15 second climber is also way easier from the back of the pyramid. I'm not going to take on one of the most complicated endgame strategies (corner climbing) so my partners can do another 9-12 point cycle in a match.

Now that we have had more practice we can do the front side which does give us another option but while climbing we will block shooting for a moment.