I’m curious as to how beginning teams can score. Typically at the beginning of the season teams are running push bots or claw bots. In skyrise they pushed cubes and in NBN they pushed balls under the bar.
Is there an easy way for beginners to score? Can they push stars through the wall?
I would think one of the easiest ways to score this season would be to, as you’re going up, knock the stars that are on the wall off onto the other side into your scoring zones.
Also, depending upon how much the cube can be compress, pushing it under the fence MAY be possible, though I could be wrong.
Stars can definitely be pushed under the fence; they bend somewhat easilly. We did it at the fields after the game unveiling. As has been said, teams can also knock stars off of the fence—just like large balls in tossup, which this game is rather similar to. There is also always pushing stars and cubes from the 2 point to the one point zone, which likely will be enough to win a lot of autonomous bonuses.
Of course, you can also just build a pushbot with an extending arm that knocks the stars over the field middle. As there is plenty of potential to score there. Not very difficult to make either.
I think it is really interesting how every star and cube scores. It is always going to be in a scoring zone unless the stars remain on top of the fence.