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Re: Dumpers?

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Originally Posted by Rick Wagner View Post
It may be that some top alliances will consist of a shooter, a dumper, and an empty cell runner. Opposing alliance robots good at avoiding dumpers may not be able to avoid the shooter, and vice versa. With 100 seconds to run four empty cells, a robot specialized to do that may make the difference for a winning alliance. Expecting three robots to share the empty cell running duty may be asking for too much.
Our robot has the ability to be a dumper but we want strategically to be an empty cell runner. Since the fewest amount of teams are trying or have the provisions on their robot to, we figure we have a semi decent chance of being selected and succeeding in later rounds
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