Is throwing worth it ?

[TheMadCADer]

Originally Posted by roush14r

I'm fairly new with FIRST but I feel like if it is worth for one robot to be throwing per alliance. Beyond that, I think that it become a little excessive and not necessarily worth it.

If you want "full" 60 point cycles, you will need to throw over the truss and shoot into the high goal. To be the most time-efficient you can be, each robot should ideally only possess the ball in one zone. This would make an "ideal" match flow as follows:

Robot A receives ball from human player in Red Zone.
Robot A launches ball over truss to catching Robot B in White Zone.
Robot B somehow gets ball to Robot C.
Robot C launches ball through High Goal while in Blue Zone.

However, if you replace the High Goal with a Low Goal in that last step, you only lose out on 9 points per cycle.