Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

The top three scoring robots at St. Louis:

1. 217 - Averaged 40 points per match and is a hurdler
2. 525 - Averaged 31 points per match and is a hurdler
3. 148 - Averaged 30 points per match and is a racecar.


A top tier racecar will be a better partner than an average hurdler. The regionals will see the top tier race cars doing very well.

The championships will not have 24 top tier hurdlers in each division so I see top tier race cars having a significant impact.

We won St. Louis with pretty darn high scores utilizing only one hurdler and two race cars. While this will not work at Championship, it is very effective at regionals.

i agree whole heartedly with Paul here... at BAE we teamed up with team 40 another hurdler and team 134 who could carry the trackball but did not use thier arm at all during the elims... they had a great ball poker mechanism and did continus laps and worked amazingly... we couldnt have done it with out them!

lap bots will have a HUGE impact at regionals, but im not interily sure about nationals...