What is your teams (general) robot design? (2015)

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Perplexed.
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I truly believe that the key to this game, at least at the 20-90 percentiles, is time management. So many game pieces, so little time.

• Get your robot working quickly driving and stacking
  • Unless you have a "conveyor belt" design, you have to drive
  • You have to stack; the platforms aren't that large, and the big points are for putting RCs up high
  • KISS - fancy stuff later if there's time
• Practice, practice, practice
• Write code to automate alignments and frequent motions
• Practice some more
• Write autonomous code
• Figure out how long it takes you to do each thing - including driving and waiting for the human players to feed you game pieces
• Figure out
  1. What's your highest-scoring way to work the landfill and step (with maybe an occasional trip to a human station)
  2. what's your highest-scoring way to work a human station (with maybe an occasional trip to the step)
• Run timed drills on both of those
• Watch videos, adjust, and drill some more
• Make a video of each strategy so the scouts and your alliance partners know that you can really do what you say
• Work out resource allocation for each match with your alliance partners
  • Play to everybody's strengths
  • Don't run into each other
  • Maybe manage some teamwork
• Get out there and score as many points as you can in two minutes and thirty seconds!