Anyone bold enough to predict the meta of this year’s game? I think that the main strategy will be to score as many cubes into the goals as possible, then fight over towers in the last 30 seconds for point multipliers.

As for the robot designs - a lot will depend on how slippery the cubes are and how hard it will be to build tall stacks. If cubes are slippery then high reaching lifts will not be practical. DR4B tall enough to score and descore a cube in the tallest towers will be all you need. Then you want to r…

there will always be a cage bot

there is always a cage bot or some type of tank

I have been looking for an example of a reverse stacker, but couldn’t seem to find anything. Could you explain how this is done or show a robot that does this?

Skyrise season robots from AURA or 185A are first examples that I could think of. A lot of VRC teams either grabbed cubes individually (with some sort of hooks) or would only collect two cubes. 185A was a rare exception. On the other hand many VEXU teams could pick three cubes with their 24" robot. …

[image] Extending Reverse Stacker Idea VRC > Tower Takeover (19/20) Awesome animation. Friction at the top will be a problem, but a solvable one. Tipping is obviously a concern, and wow the forces at the hinge. Also finding a way to put stacks close together without knocki…

That’s what people said for ITZ

Hello, being only our second year and getting a late start this year, what is RD4Bs pleasae??

Basically two four bars stacked on top of each other facing opposite directions- hence the name reverse double four bar or RD4B for short. If you want to see what they look like, most of the high school world final robots were RD4Bs.

Four Bar Lift: [image] “6 Bar” Lift [image] Double-Reverse-4-Bar Lift [image] In motion: [Made at FreeGifMaker.me|306px;x443px;]

Tower takeover predictions?

VEX V5 Robotics Competition VRC > Tower Takeover (19/20)

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