Who are the better shooters?

[Jherbie53]

I'm wondering, "who are the better shooters?", that people have seen at regionals. At Boilermaker last weekend, team 135 was a strong shooter that ended up as the 'undefeated' top seed but lost in the semifinals, I think? They were good not only at shooting but at picking up from the floor. (Floor pick up is a completely different topic) However if you started pushing them from the side with a good drive train, while they were shooting, they could be stopped.

I'm now going to talk about my team, 85 B.O.B. Our drive team coach has said that in the finals, at Boilermaker, we easily scored 30-40Pt's a match. (I could be mistaken) One of the reasons that we did this is because we got our camera working. In one match we were off to one side, with the "body" of BOB turned about 90 degrees to the 3pt goal, and the turret moved and scored 3-4 balls. This was pretty cool from up in the stands, and from my point of view makes us one of the better shooters. You might disagree, but keep reading.

Most of the 3pt shooters that I saw at Boilermaker needed to "line up" there robot with the goal, which if you seen any finals matches this can be VARY tough to do. I'm not saying these teams are bad, its just hard to drive with "obstacles" that keep moving and hitting you.

Turrets on the other hand allow drivers the ease of not always moving the robot, just the turret. With some good programming, and a camera, the turret locks on to the goal and make its own adjustments. Team 85 got this to work and it helped lead us to winning the regional.

I my final opinion, I think that the better shooters are the ones with a turret. Easier shooting, less worry about where the robot is, and some very exciting matches make a turret robot a cool one. Now its YOUR turn to tell me and everyone else, Team numbers or types of robots, "Who are the better or who make the better shooters."