Stacking on stacks And Usagi: A Manifesto

Got_a_Screw_Loose · October 21, 2019, 2:25pm

Quite a robot! You guys are ahead of the curve. I expect stacking on stacks will become more and more commonplace as designs begin to converge on the singular meta.

Stacking on stacks allows for versatility, especially in quals when you haven’t a clue who you’ll be with or against ahead of time.

At some point, we’ll see the point of diminishing returns between tray size and intake speed. If we still want larger stacks at that point, we’ll need to stack on stacks. Additionally, having the capability to do so means that you can very quickly intake about 7 cubes, rather than having to slowly intake 14.

However, a point against stacking on stacks, which its opponents have adamently pointed out, is that there are only 66 cubes on the field. Ideally, you want to stack most of them for yourself, but your opponents will get quite a few for themselves. An average 6 stacks of ten is 60 cubes, leaving 6 for tower play.
So that could be a point against stacking on stacks and the extra motors required to do so.

Despite this, however, I do think that stacking on stacks and the versatility it allows is worth the aforementioned drawbacks thereof.

I feel like this post belongs here, so I’ll leave it here.

Have you considered beyond the design capabilities? Such as the 2-3 motor drive? That would be a severe disadvantage with how much defense is being played in some areas. How is this in Hawaii?

And then, as presented above, what about cube limitations on the field? With infinite cubes, the traybot lift (which I perfer over Usagi because it’s more intuitive; I also hate “schlong”) is definitely superior. But, really, larger trays can clear the whole field, I think.

Again, as above, the versatility of the tray lift design is amazing.

Another downside to large trays is the maneuverability of Them. I don’t have any firsthand experience thereof, but a considerably long robot could be very hard to maneuver around towers and the like.
(Another reason a small traybot on a lift is better in my opinon.)

To be clear, I am in favor of the lift traybot design. I am merely pointing out counter arguments to address.