pic: REX (Team 4334 - Alberta Tech Alliance)

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I think you'd be pleasantly surprised how much more competitive events would be with more simple and reliable robots on the field. Which is more exciting: Watching teams struggle to move and score even a single three pointer all match, then fall off the bridge, or a match where three robots are shuffling balls around the field, supporting one or two elite scorers, possibly scoring on their own in the lower goals trying to win with volume?

But this won't increase the number of high quality scorers in the game. One of my favorite lines in pick list formation is "Any (scoring) robot can be a feeder robot." Another team's stubbornness or your lack of persuasion prevents this from being perfectly true, but if they can try to score, they can feed you. All that more feeder bot designs would do is prevent some mediocre scorers from evolving into elite scorers during the season.

Back to the topic at hand, everyone loves Rex, no?