Was the Low Bar worth it?

[Anthony Galea]

This is a hard question for me. Knowing what I know now about our team's performance (3rd district win but no MSC), I feel like if we were a low bot we would have stood a much better chance at making MSC. At our first district, we had a lot of trouble getting over defenses due to our suboptimal CoG and the inexperience with getting over the metal defenses instead of the wooden ones (for some reason the wood defenses felt easier to cross).

As the season went on, we got better at the defenses, but we still had somewhat of a tipping problem (tipped twice at Southfield, tipped twice at Woodhaven, one being in the finals although we still won the match). If we would have designed to be a low breaching bot who could score low, I don't doubt that we would have seeded higher and have a much better chance at getting to MSC and potentially Champs.
However, I don't believe we would have won any of our events if we went low.

Its a hard question, but I think if you asked me to go build a new robot today, I think I would go high, but definitely go with a different design that allowed for the shooter to speed up while aligning to shoot, and have a lower CoG.