[FTC]: How far is everyone?

[jamie_1930]

@JesseK

You’re correct in your interpretation of the rules, though I think that the middle is a death trap. If you can climb the wall, you can climb a ball. If you climb a ball at the wrong time and are too big … your bot will hit the high goal an inur penalties. Though that’s just my synopsis of it though, and it may play out completely different. Our strategies make the assumption that we’ll never need to go into the middle and that if we may miss the middle we’ll save the shot for the outside … meaning we’ll never miss and therefore never need to go into the middle to retrieve. At least that’s the theory, though teams may very well incur 40pts of penalties just to make us miss 10+ balls.

In my opinion you should be able to climb the goal and block points from being scored and then move around a little and get out, I don’t think going over balls will be as big a problem as you anticipate because if you take it slow going in you should me the balls out of your way then be able to back up the way you came in, if need be, to get out

[CIM]

@jamie_1930

In my opinion you should be able to climb the goal and block points from being scored and then move around a little and get out, I don’t think going over balls will be as big a problem as you anticipate because if you take it slow going in you should me the balls out of your way then be able to back up the way you came in, if need be, to get out

Blocking points (other than through robot collision / goal motion) is a penalty this year, so be careful with robot designs and height.

[jamie_1930]

@Chris is me

Blocking points (other than through robot collision / goal motion) is a penalty this year, so be careful with robot designs and height.

What I mean is that if your inside the low goal you’ve drastically reduced the scoring area available. At competition this may come to the referees interpretation of the rules, in my opinion since some may consider it not in the spirit of FIRST that it will be changed soon after it’s first tried.

[Rick_TYler]

@jamie_1930

What I mean is that if your inside the low goal you’ve drastically reduced the scoring area available. At competition this may come to the referees interpretation of the rules, in my opinion since some may consider it not in the spirit of FIRST that it will be changed soon after it’s first tried.

The rules of a game should reflect the value of its creators. If this strategy is “not in the spirit” of the game, the rules should not allow it. Executing a legal strategy is never wrong.

[JohnFogarty]

@Rick TYler

The rules of a game should reflect the value of its creators. If this strategy is “not in the spirit” of the game, the rules should not allow it. Executing a legal strategy is never wrong.

LAWL we completly veered of the topic of this forumn XD but it tis intresting.