Any Wicked Awesome Goalies out there ?

[bentjeans]

Originally Posted by hrench

I think a problem with being goalie is that because of where you have to hang-out, you probably won't be a part of any assists. You'll actually take points away from your own team.

Thoughts?

Isn't that goalie zone very near to where you'd want to be inbounding balls? The video link above in the thread shows the goalie deploying a net and catching a ball tossed into the field. So the goalie actually becomes the possessing bot in that first zone. If the goalie is busy with the one-and-only opponent game piece at the moment inbound is needed, the inbounder could toss the ball further upfield to a mate, or a mate could inbound that cycle. So goalie could probably inbound about half of the balls for the alliance (unless they are a really good goalie, in which case your opponent is going to spend the rest of the match in their offense zone trying to clear their blocked autonomous balls and trying to pin and push the goalie around

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by hrench

I think a problem with being goalie is that because of where you have to hang-out, you probably won't be a part of any assists. You'll actually take points away from your own team.

Thoughts?

I don't think that's true at all. There will be quite a bit of team when the goalie bot isn't blocking shots, and during that time, they can certainly receive an inbounded ball and pass it up the field. Even if they don't have a ball holder, they can still possess the ball...

[discobrisco]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Pics/vids or ban!

I'll get those pics up ASAP, been working all day sorry :/

[eli2410]

Originally Posted by discobrisco

I'll get those pics up ASAP, been working all day sorry :/

Backing up discobrisco
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39604?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=659774174065369&set=a.6454577321636 80.1073741835.142538092455649&type=1&theater

[GortGortGort]

Originally Posted by GortGortGort

We were just wondering it seems everyone is building ball shooters are there any wicked awesome goalies out there ? Are any teams building high goal or low goal blockers ? It seem a blocking bot would be rather a sought after commodity ?

We have posted some photos of our Wicked Awesome Goalie that team 5040 built .I guess the Awesome part is yet to be seen but the tag is wickedawesomegoalie we also have a video that we made ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBo...e_gdata_player

The team sure had fun building it !

[JamesCH95]

I sure hope you've got legal bumpers to put on your robot.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by GortGortGort

We have posted some photos of our Wicked Awesome Goalie that team 5040 built .I guess the Awesome part is yet to be seen but the tag is wickedawesomegoalie we also have a video that we made ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBo...e_gdata_player

The team sure had fun building it !

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

I sure hope you've got legal bumpers to put on your robot.

Just for clarification, per Rule R24, those corners need to be filled by the bumpers you plan on using at competition.

Originally Posted by R24

Corner joints between BUMPERS must be filled with pool noodle material. Examples of implementation are shown in Figure 4-9.

[GortGortGort]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Just for clarification, per Rule R24, those corners need to be filled by the bumpers you plan on using at competition.

We do have two sets a red set and a blue set and they are legal
These photos are of the team building progress , not the final bag and tag photo.