Shooters & Percentage Poll

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by DjAlamose

The only problem with this assumption is that would be ramming! You don't understand how much I hate it when teams do this. You also need to remember that there are the bumpers that will help protect the robot and then (my guess) there will be teams that have devises to keep themselves in one position.

My thoughts are that 30% of teams will be able to score at least 20 balls in 40 seconds given that the goal is unguarded (i.e. no robot interfering). But if those same robots are being guarded against then 25% of them would be able to get the 5 balls in the goal.

Of course scoring while guarded is going to be harder than scoring in an open goal.

BUT... ...Being able to score in an unguarded mid-goal is enough to make exciting matches.

Here is why: During the Offense/Defense periods, it is 3 on offense VS. 2 on defense. The 2 on defense cannot be in 3 places at 1 time. If they are sitting in front of the side goals, the center goal is open. If they are defending the middle goal against scoring by an effective mid-goal scoring machine, one of the side goals has to be open. It is this dynamic that will make the game exciting.

It is the lack of this dynamic that would make the game pretty pointless if nobody can score effectivly in the mid-goal. The two Defensive robots can just sit in the corners, effectively making scoring impossible and there is nothing the other 3 robots are going to do about it (for the most part).

That's how I see it anyway.

Joe J.