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Re: 2011 Mini-bot?

So obviously depending on the team, it might be hard to do both. IMO a successful team will be able to do both. So what do you sacrifice first? Minibot performance or scoring performance? Consider This.

An amazing robot which can score like crazy and has a wicked fast minibot....STILL needs another minibot. I would say in prioritization, make this first. And if you're sacrificing something else, make this AWESOME. That's a 30 or 20 points you could potentially score for your alliance in 10 seconds.

Now what do you sacrifice? Maybe you have to sacrifice the whole scoring thing, but I don't think so. Try something first like only being able to score on the middle/bottom rows or only bottom. You're still helping out scoring, but you're able to do everything your robot can do really well.

If you need to sacrifice scoring for a minibot, I would HIGHLY recommend putting some sort of gripper on your robot so you can be a game piece transporter. As stupid as this sounds, a good minibot launcher, defense player, and tube transporter, teams will fight for.

On the other hand. If you sacrifice the minibot, you better have a scorer that can make up for that (aka REALLY. FREAKING. GOOD.).

But yes, I think that both this year are the best strategy and whatever you put more time into will make your robot unique. Just like 2007, Ramp bots need something to go on them and scoring bots need a ramp bot.
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