paper: Spanking the Children

[Duncan Macdonald]

Thanks for this Jim, really well done.

Originally Posted by ErvinI

Can't wait to hear this story .

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=curie+2007

The short version is that the game had points for elevating your partners so a lot of teams built dedicated ramp bots that had little ability to manipulate the game piece and no way to positively contribute outside the final 30 seconds. Additionally the tube scoring was exponential, so stopping your opponents from placing tubes on specific locations or at all was really valuable for a ramp bot because you could be around 3 ideally placed tubes down on the scoring structure and win with a double elevation.

1114 was a really good offensive robot and 48 was a really good ramp robot specializing in tough defence. (The structure in the middle of the field was over 300 pounds and the robot interaction was moving it around the field)

Here is a video of the match but it doesn't show anything