Personally, I think the AWP criteria is too high, no way we can score this much in 15 seconds
Teams always think solo AWP is near-impossible at the start of the season. And then…
I think they made it crazy hard because theyre trying to get rid of solo awp, especially given how many teams at worlds just relied on alliances to get awp. In the front of the manual the gdc said they want this to be a highly collaborative game.
I completely agree with you on this we have to be super precise when stacking, all the other games in the past had easy and less precised ways to score and the whole gimmick of flipping cups and pins adds a whole other part to the bots and the 55w limit for drive train is gonna be hard.
I don’t think the game is that best, but I do like how the scoring will not always be 100-0 like push back was
Im interested to see the way refs start to call that betwren intentional and unintentional. Its a good rule but I feel like it will be pretty easy to undermine
Yea, this whole debate just sounds exactly like the plastic one. Everyone will figure out how to deaign a robot with a less powerful drivetrain and everyone will live. I think this is a great way to actually enforce teams allocating motors to other mechanisms and it should level the playing field for younger/less experienced teams.
I really don’t understand the whole argument about leveling the playing field. The playing field will never be level for less experienced teams simply because they are less experienced, which isn’t even a bad thing. It gives new teams a learning opportunity instead of bringing all the competition to their level. I understand cost issues… but this is robotics. Things cost money.