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[JesseK]

Originally Posted by jamie_1930

Honestly I don't know how we did so well at Clarkson (2nd place) with a robot that only scores in the low goal.

Easy. Others teams tried for the other goals and didn't make it, perhaps mistaking their ability to make a viable scorer. Your team on the other hand, for whatever reason, decided that the point gap is easily closed with a few low goal balls and defense. There were many scores in the first VA qualifier that had combined scores of less than 5. Dumping 4 balls in autonomous would have very easily won 1/2 the matches. This was easily the most surprising aspect of this game.

With the ever-evolving cat and mouse strategies in this game, I fully expect that low goal bots will be contenders to help win the elims in Atlanta. Those bots will need good autonomouses, good defensive capabilities, and smart drivers. I don't believe there will be low-goal powerhouses since defense is difficult to perfect and there's very limited low-goal space. Yet bots who are great at scoring the outer goals have a definite ally with most low-goal designs since most low goal bots can also act as defense, wingman, and a second hopper to a outer-goal powerhouse.