Loose Balls

[Kelvin Ng]

Hmm, although I agree with Shu about there not being many ball missing while loading from the corner goals, there may be a problem with tossing the balls to the backbot.

supposing one of the offensive robots successfully unloads all its balls into the corner goal. The human players may decide to toss these balls to their backbot. However, the robot that has just unloaded has several options:

a) play offense and gaurd their shooter so they may score without interference
b) play defense on the backbot and prevent it from loading balls.

if the backbot is left alone (I'm assuming this won't happen for very long, or very often), it may be possible for human players to toss balls in attempts to load their backbots. However much training they receive and how accurate their shots become, loading the backbot by throwing balls in its general idea will become exceedingly difficult if it is gaurded. If the backbot is gaurded, there may be alot of missed balls after all. A way to get around this would be:

a) have a ball collection device
or
b) load a defending robot, then have it swap spots with the backbot.