Is there a Need for Speed???

[Arefin Bari]

from what i have seen and experienced i would say that a robot will need speed and torque at the same time for the competition. first off you want your robot to hit the 10 point ball as quick as possible. you also need speed to gather the small ball around and pass it to your human player (this was pointed out before in this thread). i believe that there will be teams who will try to get on the platform as quickly as possible, so after gathering the small balls the robot needs to get on the platform where speed and torque both needed at the same time. once you are on the platform you might need to keep other bots off the platform in order to hang, so there goes for torque one more time...