what type of robot will win the most?

[ALIBI]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

Placing really should only be done in the last few minutes, or someone might knock the ball down. it's protected the same as hurdling, i believe - after all, who is going to say we're trying to place or hurdle until we actually finish the maneuver? for us, the two look exactly the same. Placing will come into play in two ways - first, it'll be a great way to score an extra 4 points at the end when your team might need it - although i expect the necessity of this will be limited. Second, it'll be a great way to score and extra 12 points at the very end when you don't have time to race halfway around the track to try to hurdle on your side. These situations will be much more frequent than the first, i think, mostly due to the fact that it's a lot of points where otherwise you'd get none at all.

Both ways, however, are very situation-dependent, and as such shouldn't be something a team counts on every game to score them points.

for the winning alliance, it'll be a combination of all types of robots, i think. You'll have one that races around the track very quickly, and thats all it does. The other two will be a trade off against hurdling speed and ball control speed. I have no doubt that there will be teams that will be great at both of these. But many more teams will be great at one, and only ok at the other, and an alliance with two of these teams will be much better balanced than an alliance with an all-star bot and two mediocre bots. And as always, there will be teams where everything doesn't come together like you would hope.

It would be quite obvious that you are not hurdling when placing the trackball on your opponents overpass. And, I agree that all placing will take place in the last few (two) minutes. It just might be better to do it in the last few seconds. Don't you hate it when your fingers do not type what your mind is telling them to do? I know that my fingers do that all the time.