Have you tried parking on the Batter?

[Ginger Power]

I think this is something that a large majority of teams are overlooking. Staying on the batter at the end of a match is not trivial. It is also going to be required to be competitive at high levels of play, you can't capture without doing so. Having 3 teams all park on the batter is even harder.

The challenge is made even harder by the lack of visibility of the batter, and the invisibility of the dividers on the batter. If you haven't yet, watch some matches from the Merrimack Week 0 event. The real field will offer some challenges that are hard to replicate.

I will also say that the RP for Capturing will be extremely rare during qualification matches because teams won't be able to park on the batter (it'll also be challenging to score 8 boulders...). The rarity of a robot that can reliably do its part to capture during the end game will make said robots highly sought after come alliance selection.

As the reveal videos start to come out, I'm sure we'll see most of the elite teams climbing. I don't believe this is only for the 10 point advantage over parking, I think it's because they realized early on that fitting 3 robots on that batter is going to be a challenge.

So have you practiced parking on the Batter (or climbing for that matter)? How do your experiences compare?