How many rows of ringersdo you think people are going to be able to make

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by astephen68

Cool was a practice match or a test of the robot match??

It was a practice match at the Sothern California Pre-Ship Scrimmage. We had 21 robots show up. About 15 actually took the field, the rest were watching and working on their robots, which due to the unique facilty, they were able to do at the same time.

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Yes... But in one match where we had no center wheel drop and could turn at about 2 RPM (literally) we limited them to 2 (They requested us to play rough defense).

We were the only ones playing defense and we are not a defensive robot, we have a 6 wheel drive with gearing higher than last years kit (50:14 & 42:12, 12.5:1 overall with 6" wheels).

Beachbots will probably increase there skill to 4 a match under heavy defense is my prediction.

I certainly hope that's true. We can score under heavy defense. Whether we can score where we need to is a different question....

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

But there is another thing to remember, Ramps aren't as easy as people think. I didn't see very many (if any) succesful ramp climbs at the socal scrimmage.

At the Scrimmage there was exactly one match with a robot that lifted two others. It occured during the Finals. 1641's partners drove onto thier robot lifting platforms and were lifted with about 30 seconds left in the match. It was pretty impressive, until power was cut at the end of the match. At that point the robots rolled right off the lifting platforms, resulting in a score of zero.

So climbing 'bots might want to consider some sort of brake while climbee 'bots might want to consider a bump or lip to help prevent this.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Is this the average or the maximum ever?

If average, I would say 3 or 4.

If maximum, I would say 8. (It will happen at least once)

[astephen68]

Yeah 8 is possible I think average would be 3-5 possibly it depends on speed and where people place the ringers.