What will the winning robot have?

[ZoNeGuY]

I would say that if you were going for the aggresive 1-2 plan, you would need to pick the most efficent robot out of the opposite team to pin and allow your partners to quickly gain the middle goal. I belive that just like tic-tac-toe, the middle is key to getting those gracious points. But taking out their most effective robot with a simple push bot will be very game-deciding.
-Zone

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by ZoNeGuY

I would say that if you were going for the aggresive 1-2 plan, you would need to pick the most efficent robot out of the opposite team to pin and allow your partners to quickly gain the middle goal. I belive that just like tic-tac-toe, the middle is key to getting those gracious points. But taking out their most effective robot with a simple push bot will be very game-deciding.
-Zone

1458 knows a thing or two about the effectiveness of pushbots... we saw this in Sacramento last year. An effective strategy for any game.

[ShadowKnight]

A robot that can successively hassle the opposition bots with the ability to control the middle goal and has great intra team and intra alliance communication to properly strategize will rank very high. Of course, it's not a winning robot that's gonna win this game, but a winning team. A single robot will not be able to handle the many complexitites of this game, and ultimately neither will 3 individual robots.

[Zanella BR]

Certainly a robot with a reliable and simple mechanism, specialized in some stratategy. Combining it with a good alliance, we have a great competitor.

But, off course a good coach helps

[Anchi]

cg half inch off Field(ours was like 1.5" last year).

last year almost every single one of our team mates tipped over in ever game.....

it defiantly needs to be modular. imagine the possibilities of different arms and such depending on your team mates. this also makes it easy as hell to fix.

[Lucid]

An ice pick on the end of the arm.

Seriously, the ability to cap the middle in auto.

[Levin571]

Good Coordination between all three of the alliance parters for any given round. This can't be a solo free for all and everyone will need to work closely with their parners if they want to do and win rounds

[suneel112]

A robot that has an arm that can pick up a tetra in any position (where the arm rotates to grab the tetra), stack, and drop tetras at will. Autonomous is also key, and so is a two-speed tranny, which detects when there is a collision and switches gears. Programming is also key for the robot, and the ability to autonomously control (even in human control mode) complex systems.

[GoDaisy341]

I think the winning robot will have to be fast and effective. People are talking about alliances...of course other robots can help you win. That's why you scout to find the best robots to compliment what you do. The best robot however will be able to score fast and effectively. Probably some kind of capping mechanism. Good luck guys!

[Stephen Kowski]

i disagree that autonomous is as big a deal as everyone is making it seem....the max you can get from vision tetra 9 pts.....3 tetras.....i bet that gets beat fairly quickly....I think there are more valuable things to do in autonomous....

i think the winning bot will have a low cg and has to be able to take a tremendous beating.....oh yeah capping might be nice

[ShadowKnight]

well, you can have the ability to start off controlling the center goal. While that alone doesn't give you 40 pts, it DOES allow you to prevent the other team from gaining those 40 pts. (or with the right alliance, possession of that goal COULD actually give you 40 pts.)

[Alex Pelan]

Good drivers, reliable design (emphasis on good drivers). They're also going to have to be able to pin any other robot in the competition.

[EddieMcD]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

They're also going to have to be able to pin any other robot in the competition.

Ah, now we're getting into switching gears on the fly. High speed/low torque to low speed/high torque. It's an old technique in these games, but still quite useful if your driver is on the ball.

[Steve P]

I dont see the big value of the center goal. Sure, it gives you a possible of 43 + points but lets talk some sense here. The only way to get a row out of the middle is to have the top and bottom middle tetras, or a tetra in the enemy's base line. With 3 robots on the enmy team, do you think you will be able to cap and hold a tetra in the enemy's last row? If you do, youd have to defend it throughout the match, youd be stranded far away from tetra input into the game (human or automated) and your liable to get it capped when you rush back to the line for the +10 bonus, or when the enemy bots are coming home. Sure, it sets you up for more rows, but they will be very hard fought. I think the wining robot will put 2-3 tetras on each of thier back rows positions, claim a tetra on the top or bottom middle row, and then defned those four.

[Jrat47]

Originally Posted by ShadowKnight

A robot that can successively hassle the opposition bots with the ability to control the middle goal and has great intra team and intra alliance communication to properly strategize will rank very high. Of course, it's not a winning robot that's gonna win this game, but a winning team. A single robot will not be able to handle the many complexitites of this game, and ultimately neither will 3 individual robots.

Hey I'm On the Chief Delphi team and I'd have to agree. The robot my have all the bells and whistles in the world but with out a great team, it might as well be a pile of scrap.