Car Nack Predicts 2010-1

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Car Nack

1. Contrary to most previous years, the qualifying matches will have, on average, much higher scores than the elimination matches.

2. Unless there is a revision to the definition of a "suspended robot", an alliance scoring eight points (three robots hanging) will be extremely rare. So rare in fact that it will never happen at least 40 regional competitions and a chance it will never happen in the FRC 2010.

Woohoo! Been waiting for this.

I can see how #1 might come about.

I think prediction #2 is iffy. It depends on lots of variables that are hard to get a grasp on (though I suppose it's predictions like this Car Nack is especially skilled at making). You'll need a good suspend-o-bot who can also score (not an impossible combination, I think) a solid scorer/hanger and enough depth of field to get an acceptable scorer/hanger combination.

On the same note, I think 8 points will be exceptionally rare (or unheard of?) in qualifying matches. I think it might be the Bee's Knees in eliminations though. If you can use two robots to tie up the balls (kick them to your zone, or preferably score them) while suspendo-bot gets in position in the final 40 seconds, I think the 8 points will be hard to beat, especially if you can keep the scores in check during tele-op.