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

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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.

If the racecar averaged 30 points per match, even though I didnt see the regional play, I can only assume it had a lot to do with autonomous. Otherwise it did, an average of 15 laps during the match.
Most racer bots that I saw was not able to average 15 laps per match.
If that's the case, as a third alliance partner, I can see the rationale as being effective.