How Far Can Your Robot Shoot?

[Ginger Power]

How far can you shoot? Into the goal? Over the truss? From the robot to where the ball lands on the ground?

[DonRotolo]

All three. Honest.

[cmrnpizzo14]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

All three. Honest.

No way you nailed the third one.

[Jibri Wright]

We have the potential to shoot over 50 feet, but will probably nerf it. There's really no need to be that powerful.

[yash101]

You should allow multiple answer selection

[falconmaster]

We can shoot from 18 feet out and make it

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by yash101

You should allow multiple answer selection

How do you do that?

[cglrcng]

Their bot hops too shooting at that distance! 6 wheels completely off the ground when it does. I saw the video last night.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

How do you do that?

When you create the poll, there's an option for that.

[Ginger Power]

This poll turned out to be very interesting! There is a very well defined bell curve centered around 11-20 feet. There is an outlier at 50+ feet. I wonder if there is a strategic reason for this or if it is just a coincidence. Can those who can shoot 50+ feet speak to why they wanted to throw the ball that far? Also can those who can't shoot at all speak to why they chose not to shoot? ( I'm assuming it was to focus on being a great assister)

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

This poll turned out to be very interesting! There is a very well defined bell curve centered around 11-20 feet. There is an outlier at 50+ feet. I wonder if there is a strategic reason for this or if it is just a coincidence. Can those who can shoot 50+ feet speak to why they wanted to throw the ball that far? Also can those who can't shoot at all speak to why they chose not to shoot? ( I'm assuming it was to focus on being a great assister)

We have a linear shooter this year and in prototyping, we didn't know how strong it would be, so we made it as powerful as possible. Turned out it was too powerful We have however 'nerfed' it. As stated before, we don't need to be that powerful.

[dellagd]

Yeah, with the essentially "no full-court shooting" rule, there's not much reason to shoot that far.

Also, I think its a nice indicator about how the GDC felt about full-court shooting last year

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright

We have a linear shooter this year and in prototyping, we didn't know how strong it would be, so we made it as powerful as possible. Turned out it was too powerful We have however 'nerfed' it. As stated before, we don't need to be that powerful.

I kind of figured most of the teams that can shoot 50+ feet were in a similar situation as you guys. Thanks for replying!

[Bryce Paputa]

If you ignore air resistance, the half court shot we designed for would land further than 50 feet away.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by dellagd

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Also, I think its a nice indicator about how the GDC felt about full-court shooting last year

I don't think this is a sound argument.

Does the lack of safe zones this year indicate how the GDC felt about safe zones?
Does the lack of an end game this year indicate how the GDC felt about the end game last year?
Does the lack of frisbees this year indicate how the GDC felt about frisbees?

How can you say that this rule, for this game, for this year, tells you anything about how the GDC felt about last year. Other rules have been made because of specific games/robots that do give us insight into the mind of the GDC. For example, there were quite a few robots that intentionally flipped other robots in 2003, and since 2004, there has been a rule prohibiting this behavior. The difference here is that flipping robots does not inspire anybody, so it was nixed because it was not helping FIRST's mission. Successful full-court shooting was (at least for me) one of the most inspiring things about last year's game, so I would be both surprised and disappointed if the GDC eliminated that from every future game.

Each game is unique, each game has its own game flow. The GDC wants this game to encourage assisting your teammates. Full court shooting does not fit with that game flow, so it is not allowed for this game.

I'd be willing to bet that we haven't seen the last of full court shooting.