You are in the finals of the Curie division. Blue Alliance consists of an aggressive alliance where BlueBot1 is a Scorer, BlueBot2 is a scorer, and BlueBot3 is a double robot lift at twelve inches. Red Alliance’s is a bit more defensive with RedBot1 a scorer, Redbot2 a hybrid scorer/defense robot, and Redbot3 a double robot lift at twelve inches. With thirty seconds left to go the rack has six red tubes and seven blue tubes with two spoilers placed already and two on the floor. Red Alliance has a very poor scoring percentage and with Redbot1’s main manipulator dysfunctional after a minute and a half Red Alliance is left with two defense bots and one bad scorer. With fifteen seconds left to go BlueBot2 boards BlueBot3 in its home alliance and RedBot1 boards RedBot3 in its home alliance. Also at fifteen seconds both teams have seven ringers on the rack in 2 rows (one for the Blue Alliance and one for the Red Alliance). Now a two foot distance lies from the RedBot2 to the rack hoping that this time after many failed attempts the ringer makes it on. After statistics showing that RedBot2 only places one ringer in every seven attempts, what does BlueBot2 do? Bluebot2 does not have a ringer near by and it would take 10 seconds to pick up the ringer and get to the eighth spider leg.
- Have faith in the statistics: Climb BlueBot3 because statistics show RedBot2 will probably not make it and start getting ready Einstein, but still keeping in mind the risk that if RedBot2 scores than it is all over for the Blue Alliance.
- Play it safe: Play defense and stop RedBot2 from scoring, and prepare for round 4.
Explain your decision BlueBot2.
Pavan.
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