Your game predictions - Car Nack Style

[ALIBI]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

1) I don't believe so. Going straight for 50 feet is hard! It took us nearly 3 years to get it down (granted, we didn't spend the whole time working on it). And the real problem won't be that BLUEABOT1 isn't able to do it on his own, it'll be that BLUEABOT2 and BLUEABOT3 will be gunning for it at the same time, and someone will get clipped, then they'll spin out, and trap the rest of their alliance behind them. Additionally, it will cost nearly all teams at least 5 seconds to stop, knock the ball down, and then start up again. Not to mention, it's probably worth your time (if you hurdle) to have hold of that ball from the start of tele-op.

3) Why not just hurdle it and ensure you get the points? If you place, you get 12 points that can be taken away, if you hurdle, you get 8 guaranteed points. While this builds up over two trackballs, will you get 2 good hurdlers together in a seeding match? I'd bet maybe twice a regional. So I see hurdling as more valuable unless you absolutely need those 4 points, and can't get them racing around the track in the time it takes you to position that ball.

1. Going straight has not been that big of a problem and using the robocoach to correct for traffic will offer some help to cross at least two lines. Think of the robot that hugs the center divider and turns left when it runs out of wall or the robot that hugs the oustide wall and follows it around. Who says that it takes 5 seconds to remove the trackball? Suppose that you could remove the trackball without stopping. I do agree that if you can get contol of the trackball when you remove it from the overpass, you will have some advantage. Getting a trackball off the floor will take some time if you opposing alliance is pushing your trackball around.

3: To hurdle you have to be at your own finish line and the trackball must have crossed the opponents finish line. To place, the trackball does not have to cross the opponents finish line nor does it have to be placed above your own finish line. I just think that you have more chance of being in position to place at the end than hurdle.