"The Little Things" - Helpful hints for all

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Originally Posted by Thunder910

I'll pile on to this.

No robot necessarily needs to do every part of the game. The jack of all trades is often the master of none.

+1

I wasn't around for 2011, but from what I've it was very rare to see a good team without a floor pickup. In 2012 you basically needed a floor pickup to be competitive. In 2013, ~50% of the top tier teams had floor pickups, as opposed to the ~5% of all teams that had one. And then look back to 2009, 2008, 2006, 2000, and I'm sure some other games I'm not familiar with.

2 conclusions:

1. Don't make assumptions about the game you haven't seen yet.
2. Even if a certain strategy isn't quite as effective as others, if you are the only robot at a competition who can execute that strategy successfully, your chances of getting picked are pretty high.