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Re: High Goal Vs. Low Goal

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How much time will your robot spend chasing the same boulder around if you miss the high goal? Keep in mind that there are two sets of Defenses that may be obscuring your view of the courtyard your robot is in and that a defending robot will be doing its best to interfere with your robot. It was heartbreaking in 2012 to watch our drivers waste many, many precious seconds where he could not see that the ball he was trying to pick up was really about 2 feet further down the field than the robot was.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comments... but it seems like you thought they were in contrast to my post you quoted. I'd say my post was saying: shooting in the HG well enough to make it worthwhile will be very challenging... harder than HG shooting in previous games; but the rewards are big for those who can do it very, very well. The shooting mechanism itself must be very accurate and repeatable (depending on range to target), and it probably will need to be paired with auto-targeting, skilled and practiced drivers, and/or a consistent shooting location... but the teams that can have excellent shot accuracy and get into and out of position quickly will be very valuable (in some ways because I expect it to be a smaller group).

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Your team needs to be very honest about what it is capable of accomplishing then apply Karthik's two Golden Rules. Some of the features you then choose to implement may be a stretch but it should be a thoroughly calculated risk.
I concur. a lot. :-)
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