Climbing or No?

[pmattin5459]

As the title says, will your team be attempting climbing this year?

[Glacier]

Climbing will be huge this year so yes


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[anushad]

After the finite amount of gear and auto points are scored, climbing could be a big determiner of winners of matches, especially at district/DCMP level.

[dmorewood]

After seeing last year how much of a necessity climbing was to be competitive at the highest level of play I think you would be crazy not to try your hardest to get your robot off the ground.

[jtrv]

Points that are available every single game without fail? Yes please.

[KevinG]

It's our top priority. Our team isn't super high performing but being able to climb is seemingly a source of major points.

[bearbot]

It's our second level objective to be climbing consistently every match who knows if we will get all three scoring ways this year

[Chris is me]

This is one of the most valuable, and essential, end game tasks in years.

[ldsedam]

With the exception of the 1st gear in auto, no task gets you as many points as quickly as climbing does. You will not be a pick in eliminations in district championships or at worlds if you cant climb.

[GeeTwo]

Not only is it worth a whole bunch of points, this is the first time we can really test out an endgame climber with an inexpensive, easy to build rig, because we can provide the rope.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by ldsedam

With the exception of the 1st gear in auto, no task gets you as many points as quickly as climbing does. You will not be a pick in eliminations in district championships or at worlds if you cant climb.

Emphasis mine.


If your team chooses not to climb, don't expect to see a Championship based on performance merit.

[MrForbes]

If you can do everything else really well, and win all your matches without climbing, you will be fine.

Climbing looks to me like an easier way to get points, than messing with fuel....

It will be fun to see how it plays out.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

If you can do everything else really well, and win all your matches without climbing, you will be fine.

Climbing looks to me like an easier way to get points, than messing with fuel....

It will be fun to see how it plays out.

I don't think this is wrong, but at the same time, one important factor here is that climbing points are points that no one else on your alliance could possibly get. You could potentially have your ball game or gear game patched up with a good partner in that area, but nobody can get your robot's climb bonus for you.

[rich2202]

With a custom rope, it doesn't seem hard to design a climber. All the mechanism can go above the "loading zone" so you are not sacrificing ball capacity.

[BotDesigner]

I suspect that it will be extraordinarily rare for a team to make eliminations without being able to climb.