There’s been a noticeable lack of discussion around what sort of strategies will be the most competitive this year, namely how much will strategies focus on rings versus goals, so I’m starting this topic to change that. First lets take a look at the actual point values for each item: goals: 20 p…

I am curious about the GDC’s game design process. Clearly the GDC designs the game elements to (nearly) work with the basic claw-bot, and the GDC (presumably) creates that year’s “hero robot” as a minimally viable robot for the game. It seems they also consider, to some degree, what advanced teams…

[image] Mentor_355U: (Honest question, please don’t read any snark into this) Does the GDC physically play the game during the game development phase? If so, does it do so with different “level” of robot quality? That is actually a very good question that I’ve always wondered as well. Just g…

[image] action000: Another problem that we are running into is the platforms. The material on top is already starting to bend. Also with some of the bigger robots if you hit the platform only slightly off center - toward the middle of the field - the whole platform pulls up from the tiles as it …

[image] 9MotorGang: The $200 cost per team? Yes, there’s a cost. However, I was focusing my post more on the claims that there are no tradeoffs to use pneumatics and that you have to use them to be competitive. That’s not the case. There are legitimate robot design tradeoffs involved with usi…

How would you get the platform to balance without having a robot on it though? I haven’t gotten my hands on the field elements yet but in the videos I’ve seen it looks like the platform tips very easily. Wouldn’t dropping a 3-4 pound goal on top of the platform cause it to tip, leading all the other…

[image] NJimmy: How would you get the platform to balance without having a robot on it though? I haven’t gotten my hands on the field elements yet but in the videos I’ve seen it looks like the platform tips very easily. Wouldn’t dropping a 3-4 pound goal on top of the platform cause it to tip, l…

It would be really nice if Vex posted something like @Golf ’s field tour. That way we could all see the individual parts of the field. Either that or a match played. Maybe next year…

Don’t know why I remembered it being a lot wobblier than that. But even so, if you start by putting one goal to the right of the center of the platform in a way that it stays balanced (like in the video), then you can put a goal to the left of that (and it will stay balanced), but as soon as you try…

[image] Jon_Jack: Yes, you can use unlimited cylinders - but you are limited to the number of actuations you can make since you can’t recharge your pneumatics with an onboard compressor. So it’s not unlimited free energy. Compare this to a V5 motor, which given the current motor usage limits and…

[image] technik3k: True, but it is not only about the total available power - the number of degrees of freedom (i.e. how many independent actions you can perform) is also very important. Not as important as you think. If this were the case, we would have seen more teams using pneumatics in th…

How Important are Rings?

VEX V5 Robotics Competition V5 Tipping Point (21/22)

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the platforms are actually quite forgiving,

you can put the goals quite far to one side and the platform stays balanced.