Scouting News 03/09/01

Scouting News

Friday, March 9, 2001

03/09/01

I got to see the morning's matches at the NASA Langley/VCU Regional competition. The scoring there was amazingly low, in my opinion. I did not see any team even try to balance two goals. No one seemed to have the grabbers/traction to do so. Some teams were even having trouble with traction to get over the bridge. Many robots fell over at the base of the bridge. I think this is a key point to strategy; being able to diagnose exactly how well your robot functions, besides its "theoretical" abilities. I think many of the robots at VCU are designed to grab both goals, but so far, I've seen no attempts, resulting in the low scoring. I think the highest match score of the day was around 177 or so. For the teams attending the Silicon Valley Competition, treat this (or my report of it) as a learning experience to carry to our regional.

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