Newton Division 2015

[steelerborn]

Originally Posted by Poseidon1671

It's hard to win when the other alliance has 7 bins to your 3. Raw stacking power does you no good unless you have bins in your possession. Whoever pairs with 1678 will win Newton and whoever pairs with 971 will likely win their division also.

I think that is a fairly good prediction. 1678 has shown that they have a very reliable can grabbing system, and also another set for cheesecake that is fairly reliable as well. A team that picks them has a good chance for getting all 4 cans from the step, which would be hard to beat. They also are a great team with a history of doing well at champs.

JohnSchneider what about that prediction is not reasonable?

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by steelerborn

I think that is a fairly good prediction. 1678 has shown that they have a very reliable can grabbing system, and also another set for cheesecake that is fairly reliable as well. A team that picks them has a good chance for getting all 4 cans from the step, which would be hard to beat. They also are a great team with a history of doing well at champs.

JohnSchneider what about that prediction is not reasonable?

I'm not gonna lie, I don't feel nearly that confident, if we're not the fastest then we have a very slim chance of winning anything. No one has any idea how fast anyone else is. No matter how fast we go there's always someone who could go faster. I can tell you that the mechanism we showed off during the season definitely wouldn't cut it, I doubt it would have been good enough to make it through division semifinals. We're going as fast as we can with the materials available to us, but that still may not be fast enough, and I'm definitely not willing to put down any money until I see what everyone else has up their sleeve.

[carpedav000]

Our robot isn't the fastest canburglar when it comes to lifting the can off the step. But if we get ahold of it, there's a higher chance of us being dragged across the center step than losing the can (where we grab it also gives us the advantage of leverage).

[Wayne TenBrink]

This will be interesting. With so many teams pushing the envelope on their previous experience, so many teams trying to break into this aspect of the game for the first time, and so little opportunity to fine tune these finely tuned systems on the practice field, I expect to see a more than a few cans left on the step - and a good dose of robo-barf on the field, too.

Bring plenty of popcorn. Its going to be fun to watch.