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Re: 2009 REAL ThunderChicken Robot

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Originally Posted by Schnabel View Post
As I have told someone on my team many many times, it doesn't matter who we are, but how we play the game. Sure they may have a great track record in the past, but this could (and I emphasize could) be the year that they don't do so hot. I know that the TechnoKats have been though this before, and it sucks, but it can happen. Plus remember that the shooter bot is much more complex than the dumper bot, this means more can go wrong, that that it will, but that it can.
I'm going to have to disagree with the complexity statement, at least in its entirety. The only "dumper" robots this year that I have seen that look like they could truly decide a match I would not classify as simple. They all have multiple belt runs, custom transmissions, rollers, and structures, a helix, etc. These are not simple machines and have just as many possible places to fail. There are other "dumpers" that are simple, but IMO these will not be particularly effective. Any dumper that takes more than 2 seconds to dump 10 balls or so seems to be out of luck since they rely on being next to another robot. I stand by my statement that both shooters and dumpers will be equally effective this year so long as they are built to maximize there strengths. I also believe that a combination of the 2 types is truly the most effective.
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