3 scored in Autonomous by a single bot!!!

[JGurnow]

Originally Posted by ExTexan

I had to chuckle when I read "easy teleop points"! In more than one match, at more than one competition this year, I have watched closely as 1 or even 2 robots have spent nearly the entire match in the offensive zone, with balls, without being defended against, and failed to score. Yet if other are allowed to get close to a ball they will score it immediately.

I guess it's a good demonstration of the GDC's desire to make a function difficult yet doable.

What we try to do is start in far zone kick them, go to mid get any still left, go to home and score. We don't cross the bumps just for show.

I wish that we would see more robots who are good at herding the balls into the goal. Its one of the fastest ways to score when the balls are there. Push balls into wall drive robot at slight angle into the wall then score most of the balls. Its hard to herd a single ball though without a grabber/rollers, the outer edge always seems to make the balls get caught.