A strategy note: Tipped robots

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by ay2b

As for the likelihood of robots tipping - there certainly will be some that tip, as there are every year. Compare this to the 2005 game, Triple Play. This year we are picking up an 8-10 pound ball roughly 8 feet (putting the center of the 40" ball at 8'2" puts the bottom at 6'6", the height of the overpass). In 2005, the tetras weight around 15 pounds and were lifted 12-14 feet. That's more weight at a higher elevation. How often did the 2005 robots tip? Certainly they tipped over some, but not THAT often.

This isn't meant as a nitpick, but more to offer some perspective. Tetras weighed eight pounds each, not fifteen. Add in the fact that teams will be moving a lot faster because precision is not as important now as in 2005, and I expect that you'll see even more tipped bots than we did then.