Scaling the Tower

[BenGuy]

What is your team's strategy involving the low bar and hanging on the tower.

Edit - Yes I see the yest instead of yes

[Whippet]

I voted yes for both, but our climber is being developed as an "if we have time" addition for if we actually have our scoring mechanisms working semi-reliably before build stop. It all depends on the next week or so of build, and there's a decent chance that we will not do it.

[wjd13]

Same thing for us as Whippet says, our focus is breaching the defenses, then shooting low/high goals, then scaling if we have the time to develop it before stop day. I think that the best robots will be able to scale, because it's essentially a free 10 points that a lot of teams are just discounting as too difficult. The difficulty lies in developing it before the end of the build season.

[orangemoore]

We are also attempting low and hanging. But that is only the plan it isn't reality yet.

[Taylor]

We plan to do both - just not necessarily at our first event. (districts are so cool!)

[Sperkowsky]

We are attempting both and it looks good. The climbing mechanism is pretty much done just waiting on some sponsor made parts and it's made to articulate.

[BenGuy]

Originally Posted by Taylor

We plan to do both - just not necessarily at our first event. (districts are so cool!)

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

Our lifting mechanism also doubles as our defense articulating mechanism, so, nope.

[IronicDeadBird]

Is anyone planning on assisting another team and helping them scale?

[Ginger Power]

All I'm learning from these CD polls is that teams are incredibly optimistic at this point in the build season. Going under the low bar and climbing is going to be pretty rare.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

It's not so much that it's the last thing on the priority list - it's actually 3rd on ours for game-specific strategies - it's just that to meaningfully prototype and design it, we kind of need a 'complete' robot.
Strategically, the ability to scale is pretty high. From a design standpoint, it's something we can iterate on our practice bot after ship day to get a good system. We want to make sure the rest of the robot is rock-solid* as well.


*boulder-solid?

[wjd13]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

I think so. At the district events, the most important things will be breaching, and capturing the tower. If you can do one or both of those things well, you have a decent shot at getting to the District Championship or Worlds, depending on how your local FIRST events are structured.

Once you get to District Champs and Worlds, is when scaling will be more important, because everyone will be *very good* and every extra point will count. That is why I think most people are leaving it as a low priority now, but it will be more important once you get closer to Worlds.

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

Definitely not. Scailing is above high goal shooting for us, but below most of the defenses.

[MrJohnston]

We plan to have a low robot that scales, but the climbing mechanism is our lowest priority.... It's in development and should work at some point this season - likely for our first event, but...

[Chris Endres]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

no.

Drive is last priority.