2011 Mini-bot?

[EricH]

2 comments:

1) FTC parts are not the only legal items.
2) Who says tubes and minibots are mutually exclusive? It ought to be possible to fire a minibot, grab a tube, and get it in place before the match ends.

[cbeavers6790]

yep we are going for it
scoring a tube within that time would not be easy and the minibot has the potential to get a lot more points

[Josh Fox]

Originally Posted by EricH

It ought to be possible to fire a minibot, grab a tube, and get it in place before the match ends.

I agree with this point 110%

If you want to win yourself a championship, then you better not plan on sitting around for 10 seconds and watching what happens.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by cooldude8181

and why would you choose this option instead of playing the tubes?

We think we can score 30 points faster than by hanging tubes. That's why.

[SashaKuznetsov]

I think some people are missing that the End Game is 10 seconds and you ONLY have that time for deploying. If you so much as touch the tower with your minibot, it's a dead tower.

<G17> HOSTBOTS may not DEPLOY a MINIBOT. Violation: TOWER is disabled.

DEPLOYMENT – the act of positioning a MINIBOT on a TOWER. DEPLOYMENT starts when the MINIBOT breaks the vertical projection of the TOWER BASE circumference during the END GAME. (Related form, DEPLOY, verb)

So it becomes, can you build a system and minibot that deploy and climb in 10 seconds (3-5, prefferably)? If so, which I believe is possible, it's definitely worth it.