High Goal Vs. Low Goal

[Jonathan Norris]

The high goal this year is by far (horizontally) the tightest goal we've ever had to shoot into, especially with no safe zones from defense. The goals in 2006/2012/2013/2014 were all multiple times wider then the game piece, this year your clearance is 6" total... I think teams are vastly underestimating how difficult it will be to score in the high goal this year and how long it will take to line up the shot, even from very close. In 2012 (the closest shooting game in difficulty), the top teams often took 10 seconds to properly lineup their shots (and they had a safe zone to shoot from).

I'll be very impressed when we see a single robot do 8 boulder high goal scores by themselves. In our best match in 2013 we were able to do 7 full court cycles with no defenses to get over, no defensive robots bothering us, a safe zone with a fast passive alignment mechanism, and one of the fastest shooters in the world (usually around a second to unload all 4 discs).