Things that are (not-not) allowed in tower takeover

VEX Robotics Competition Discussion VRC > Tower Takeover (19/20)
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What strategies and techniques are (not-not) allowed?

  • “Hoarding”
  • Picking up LOTS of cubes
  • Wallbots/expansion
  • Blocking towers
    … what else?
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  1. I am pretty sure wall bots are allowed. It says so under <G12>.
  2. Same with Blocking towers as well as expansion.
  3. I believe that there is no limit for the amount of cubes you can hold. I haven’t fully read the game manual, but so far, there isn’t anything about that.
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i havent found anything that says hoarding or picking up lots of cubes is not allowed, can you point me to where that is in the rules?

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I do not believe that there is such a rule.

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yeah i havent found one either

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Wall bots are explicitly allowed by the note in G12

Put simply: “wall-bots” and “cap-bots” are legal, but they are to be attempted at your own risk.

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hoarding, wallbots, capping bots, infinite possession, all allowed. hmmmm

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I’m starting to think 2 things. Either they overlooked hoarding entirely, or they are going to make that the first update. If hoarding is allowed, game over for the opposing alliance.

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I mean, of you’re bothering to hoard you might as well put them in your goal zone.

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if you can successfully hoard 66 cubes then you deserve to win tbh.

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Just build a huge plow. Push them all into your corner. You win.

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What’s a “cap bot” in this context?

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I believe it means blocking the tower by basically covering the top of the tower and the cube inside.

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like a cap on a bottle or something like that

lid bots

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is launching a cube legal? It might be useful for the towers.

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Accuracy would need to be insane. Probably not relevant.

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Can’t knock down blocks (sg7) and it ain’t gonna help stack.

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The cubes cant touch the borders of the goal, and you’d have to stack them insanely high ( 5 feet) or something like that to cramp 33 cubes into your two end zones. And like someone said, if you can build a 5 foot tower without knocking anything over, then you deserve to win

Not to mention if your opponent changes the cubes in the towers, they could suddenly have more score

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Look at team 2W for gateway. Basically your robot “caps” off the towers to prevent cubes from being put in them

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I feel like this might not be very effective

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