The Chester Challenge 2006

[tbush503]

I don't think this challenge is as practical as you think it is.

Some teams don't even have the capability of shooting, and most that do are not that accurate or are going purly on dead reconing as to where the goal is. The chance of getting 3 teams on an alliance that can even shoot in 10 balls in autonomous are slim.

Those robots that use the camera to target take a while to find the light, especially if the camera is hooked up to a slow moving turret. The time it would take to Drive close to the target, track it, and fire ten balls off is far greater than 10 seconds.

The opposing team normally has at least one robot that is programed to simply drive forwards, the idea being that the robot would interfere with an opposing robot and prevent them from scoring. This would throw off almost all dead-reconing shooters and most tracking shooters (at least it would prevent one ball from going in).

This challenge is no small task. It would take, in my opinion, a miracle to accomplish. The chances of it being done are far below 0%.