Taking risks @ Nat's: Will your team do it?

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Posted by Matt Berube at 03/26/2001 11:31 AM EST


Engineer on team #49, Delphi Knights, from Buena Vista High School and Delphi Automotive.


In Reply to: Taking risks @ Nat's: Will your team do it?
Posted by colleen - T190 on 03/26/2001 10:44 AM EST:



I am very glad that someone else brought this up. It gives me an oppertunity to rant.

I have attended two regionals (West Michigan and Great Lakes). My team and I, like everyone else, has put a lot of effort into scouting the all the teams and watching the game play. I find it absolutely un-believable that so many matchs end with 50 points or less.

Please! Never ever ever go into a match with a plan unless you are sure that you can pull it off in less than a minute!!

Obviously 2 goals need to be balanced to win the elimination matches, but with a random combination of robot teams and almost no time to plan, the qualification matchs should not involve such an aggresive plan.

I know that there are exceptions. If we are in an aliance with anyone who has demonstrated that they are capable of balancing 2 goals in less than a minute I won't say a thing and the Knights will do whatever this team wants, but if not please hear me out.

Assume 3 robots in the endzone
1 big ball on the far goal
12 small balls in the near goal
= 52

With the aggresive plan the up side is a 2X2X1.5 = 6 multiplier for a total of 312

The downside is only 52 points!!

By balancing the close goal only the upside is 2X2.5 = 5 multiplier for 260 points with a much higher likely hood of sucess.

The down side is 2X2 = 4 multiplier. Almost any tow bot can balance 1 goal in less than a 1' 30". This just about garunties (sp) 208 points!!

I know this is a LONG post, thank you for your patience.

Matt B.
T49
"The Plastic Knights"