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Re: Predictions for Championship

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Another 3rd winning type was one which most of us unfortunately overlooked completely. It is the bot that stays below the ball drop and "nets" all the small balls.
We can consistantly catch more than half the ball drop, and I know we aren't the only team with a net.

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All you do is cap the net and they are done for the match so I dont think that type of bot will go far. unless...they can also pick up the balls
This happened to us once in Philly (there is a picture in the photo gallery). But we can pick up small balls from the floor, one of our engineers claims that if we were to pick up enough, our convery system is strong enough to pop a 2x ball out of our basket.

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You do not need a good ball robot to win. If you have two strong robot that one stops the ball robot and two stop the other robot from hanging.
Just because you're a ball bot, doesn't mean you have a weak drive train. We have a 2-speed shift on the fly drivetrain, so we can choose between speed and power. In the 16 matches we played at Philly, I believe we were only pushed out from under the ball drop once. We also managed to push 272 (the #1 seed) around and keep them from hanging when we faced them in the semi-finals.
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