Dumpers?

[Rick Wagner]

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.

[FRC1672]

Originally Posted by Rick Wagner

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

[Rick Wagner]

Originally Posted by FRC1672

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

My team decided not to have special empty cell running capability because we want to focus on scoring in trailers, so we will be looking for good empty cell running alliance partners. In a pinch, we can pick up empty cells from the floor and shoot them into an airlock, but we figure unless we absolutely have to do that, our time will be better spent scoring in trailers.

[AlexD744]

Our robot will both carry empty cells and score however, I think we'll be more inclined to score. I guess only the competition will tell what is best.