Anyone think that anyone will get near 1000pts @ Nat's

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Posted by Alan Federman at 03/26/2001 4:09 PM EST


Engineer on team #255, Odyssey, from Foothill HS, San Jose and NASA.


In Reply to: Not even 800 (w/o 10% bonus)
Posted by Kevin Sevcik on 03/26/2001 12:12 PM EST:



I have to agree with Joel - really hard to get over 610 or 620. Very few teams can balance two goals from off the bridge and get in the endzone. I think somone could design a robot that could pull the stretcher and
score a ball but doing this in 45 seconds?? Not likely. I have been examining scenarios of how one or two robots together could handle the stretcher and make across quickly enough to allow big ball scoring.
(This to allow a 2 goal stay on the bridge robot alliance to beat 700.) 60 points in under 30? I just can't see 2 big balls 2 goals balanced 4 robots in the endzone in under 30.

I think a team that can score 600 everytime is more likely than a team that scores 700 once in a while.

The other factor to consider is practice - the scores go up as the teams get more.