Percentage of EFFECTIVE Limbo Robots

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by ToddF

In my view, the most damaging action a robot can take is to shoot for the high goal and miss, robbing your alliance of the second bonus. The possible benefit of a high goal over a low goal (3 points) is not worth the risk of taking that shot (losing 25 points) unless your shooter is greater than 80% accurate (not bloody likely) AND you have time to make all 8 shots into the high goal. (Which, at 80% accuracy, means attempting 10 undefended shots.)

That said, the temptation to waste resources on a mechanism with low point power (high goal shooter) can be overwhelming. I suspect that many teams will go down that road, making mediocre shooters, missing high goal shots and costing their alliances the bonus points for capturing the tower.

Agreed. I expect the most common type of ineffective robot this year to be mediocre (or bad) high goal shooters. Unfortunately, a significant subset of of high goal teams will focus a lot of time on the shooter while neglecting their boulder collectors, which is a shame.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

According to the poll Low Bar 90% of teams are planning on being able to go under the low bar.

I believe that 90% of teams are going to TRY to go under the low bar, I just don't think that there will be that many that are effective at it. By which I mean that their robot can not only go under the low bar but can do something else that adds significant value to their alliance (e.g. cross many/most other defenses, score boulders into the high goal, scale the tower, block opponent shots/play defense effectively, ...).
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Is scoring in the low goal not considered useful? do they need to do all those things, one of them, or some combination?

[Dezion]

Originally Posted by IKE

Is scoring in the low goal not considered useful? do they need to do all those things, one of them, or some combination?

It can be useful because it will still weaken the tower, which will give you a chance to capture the tower (for the RP point). As well, it definitely would be very useful to be able to do some of the other goals.

[GMeyer]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

According to the poll Low Bar 90% of teams are planning on being able to go under the low bar.

I agree with Joe's analysis, with one minor but important point. This is 90% of individual responders; there's likely multiple responses representing the same team, as multiple members from the same team might respond to the same poll. Other than that, though, I think you're right on.