Why this game is better then last year's

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Originally Posted by HellStorm303

i guess the reason people didnt like this year too well was that since the one task was picking up tetras could be done and most of the robots have the same looking gripper. I think what they really tried to do to get people really into it was in that first 15 seconds of autonomous. Seeing 237 cap that goal using vision was a thing of beauty. People over look the vision aspect because not many teams used it. I hope some sort of vision device is used next year.

one thing that is neat about everyone trying to accomplish the same tasks is that everyone comes up with a different way to do it! At the pittsburgh regional, everyone had a different gripper to pick up the tetras. I never thought there would be so many ways to pick up a tetra. It was also neat to see which ones were effective and which ones were too complex. It seemed that simple was good, but complexity wasn't necessarily a bad thing. 188's gripper was awesome, and more complex than most.

It seems strategy must vary from regional to regional. We saw a lot of defense at pittsburgh, and it resulted in lower scores than some other regionals. But it seems there are many regionals where there is almost no defense. I don't think one strategy is better than another, as long as they are excecuted well. From a strategy aspect, this year is definently very interesting, and it is necessary to know what the goal ownership situation is like at all times.