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Re: Robot ideas

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler View Post
This is going to be so much fun this year! Since I'm not on an FRC team right now, I can speculate wildly without having to worry about giving up any Top Sekrits.

RobotAddict and I were talking about the most radical idea we could think of and came up with the following.

* Ignore the ringers. Let your alliance partners do that.
* Build a 12-inch-tall, maximum-weight bot with multiple-speed transmissions
* During most of the match, play defense
* At the end, deploy pneumatic forklifts off both sides of your bot, and lift BOTH of your alliance partners 12" off the ground

Would you pick an alliance partner that had lifting as its only non-defensive contribution?

I thought of this too, it seems like a pretty good idea, especially if you're concerned about running out of weight with a ring manipulator. The only problem really is this:

An alliance captain will probably pick a second good ring manipulating robot in the first round. In the second round, the picking is reversed, like last year, so if you're the best defensive/lifting robot, you will probably get picked by the eighth ranked alliance, while you might prefer to be on a higher ranked alliance. And if you end up as an alliance captain as a defense/lifting robot, then you can pick one really good ring manipulating robot, but you'll probably want to pick a second ring manipulator in the second round, and you'll have a late pick in the draft.
 


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