"The Little Things" - Helpful hints for all

[KrazyCarl92]

Originally Posted by Chadfrom308

2012 basketballs were really easy to pick up, so you pretty much needed one.

Another important thing to consider is the mechanism of the game piece return to the field. In 2012, game pieces were placed in the inbounding station AFTER your opponents had already scored them. If a robot could only acquire game pieces from the inbounding station and not the floor, that robot would be choosing to generally play from behind.

In 2010, balls were returned by the alliance that scored them, which made the recycling strategy executed by 469 effective.

In 2011 and 2013, game pieces remained as scored for the rest of the match. Any new game pieces introduced could be received directly from a feeding station, meaning that this would be a viable strategy as an exclusive method of acquiring game pieces.