How many points will your robot score? Its a question that gets posted, answered, and exaggerated every single year. Every year, we on CD are dramattically off from the truth. Usually teams overexaggerate their own performance and so before Week 1 we are convinced we will see huge match scores.
I posted this poll week one with most people predicting scores from 30-80 points. I’m interested what this week will reveal.
If you are a defense specialist who can handle a boulder and score low. I would say that you are looking at 30-50 points.
A team who can cross the defenses but instead wants to shoot high goals the whole match is dependent on the other alliance also scoring boulders or trying to not get penalties by getting boulders from the opponents secret passage. I’d say low level teams who do this strategy are looking at 25-60 points.
A mix of the 2 and your solo points will be lower as your alliance will theoretically breach the defenses more evenly distributed across the 3 robots.
Juanlovr321, Squirrleluvr123, and Totelovr123…
Hmm I wonder… Nah.
It is interesting to note this year that you could be an assist bot score virtually no points but still cause a team to win. I actually hate to say it but depending upon team composition we could be scoring a bunch of points with no ranking, or few points with ranking. Ill run some numbers.
100 is definetely a lot but I can see some teams pulling it off.
20 points in auto from going over a barrier and shooting
70 points in teleop from barrier/high goal cycles (About 20 seconds a cycle, 7 in total)
15 point scale
Total: 105 points
Very hard but very possible. I suspect there will be plenty of teams that could do it in certain matches but their average will be a tad lower.
Of course, I voted based on expectations. We expect to be able to breach the defenses (8 crossings) solo if necessary, and put up several boulders in the high goal along the way, then climb on the batter to challenge.