Shooter vs Dumper Trade Study

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I'm gonna offer my support of the short range shooter (1-5').

This is a controllable design, there is sufficient power in the kit to get a large quantity of balls traveling this distance, and it will allow you to score in more situations than pure dumping.

That being said, I'm going to admit that my team has dropped the turret.

Although it was originally part of our design we found in prototyping that it wasn't useful in short range scoring. Even with the trailer on ice there is still sufficient drive train controlability to properly aim the robot.

It will be interesting to see how this effects us, since so many teams are building turrets.