what do you guys think the winning design for vex gateway will be? http://www.flickr.com/photos/59637394@N02/6491668339/in/set-72157628370230639 i think it will be something like this! let me know what you guys think
In my opinion, I think these robots are amazingly built, but not just the robot/intake is what sins the game. A fast and reliable drive-train (IN MY OPINION) is essential, and good driving skills. If these robots have those capabilities, than those robots are going to do very well in competition. What are some other thoughts?
That’s a good design, but the low capacity can weight the rest of the robot in my opinion. I still like the good old NZ design. 
That robot has been upgraded a ton, but we win every match WHENEVER we don’t get pinned, or our batteries dies.
And yes, in the end it all has to deal with the driver. Without a good one, you can go downhill.
But I also agree, both these designs I think are going to be around the same. The Chinese design is amazing.
I think this will be the winning design. It is effecient and it is simple. http://db.tt/C3riFrtk
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I see you won robot skills (good job). With the treads did you figure out a way to pick up two at a time in robot skills? My robot is incredibly similar and I ve been thinking of ways to do this.
Well the New Zealand design is probably going to be one of the three designs in the winning alliance because of its incredible efficiency but the other two might be some crazy new design by 1492 or 1107 or Green Egg.
I’m pretty sure that at least 120/320 robots at worlds will have the NZ design and maybe another 100/320 will be the dual tread design and then maybe 50/320 will be claws and the rest 50/320 will be some other unique design.
*Edit: I forgot about the wall bots which could be around 20-30 of them
Oh and our C team agrees with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCRkluvwOc something like that would probably match the efficiency of NZ design but that would be crazy to drive.
Our A team is sticking with a NZ design and we (B) are experimenting with new designs. Our first robot was the parallel tread design and it served us well but we wanted something more efficient so we created a NZ robot that was great but we wanted it to become more efficient so we took that apart a few days ago and are building our final robot for worlds. Hopefully it will be able to score efficiently and be able to block.
Green Egg had an efficient design. The reason I said had is because I bet they have modified their design since Jan 21st. But also, I’m betting that a wall bot will be on the winning alliance, because a wall bot plus an amazing scoring robot can beat out anyone.
Lol btw I was wondering how Green Egg qualified. Do the world champs automatically qualify cause I’m pretty sure that they have only participated in one competition which was yours and 40J got the excellence award.
The proliferation of the NZ and dual tread design makes me look for other unique strategies. If your robot is practically identical to 2/3rds of the other competing robots, what is the point? Unless your driving is unusually good, it basically boils down to luck. We saw this a bit in Clean sweep, when it was basically 4 bucket bots. The winners were the ones with unique addons, such as the orange ball-tipping “antennae,” green ball scoring capability or pneumatic launchers.
I think the tournament champions automatically get acceptance to next year’s competition.
Well, the judges messed up the judges award and the design award we’re pretty sure, because our team, 4886a, got the design award and we’ve never had the enginners notebook. And yeah, story goes like this. On facebook, I message one of their members and I’m like “Hey, don’t the World Champs automatically qualify?” He said back “Yeah” … “Wait, we’ve qualified.” I think the funniest part was that Leland was able to get a picture with Green Egg Robotics ranked last, which was only the first 2 matches.
Yeah it will probably all boil down to who has the best driving skills and fastest autonomous as well as strategy and luck.
And if teams can cap the center goal in auton, that will be the game breaker. If a robot can do that every time, I think they have the unbeatable strategy.
Lol your competition was probably the first time they haven’t won a regional competition, but oh well, one week robots aren’t usually going to win cause you don’t have time to perfect it, practice with it, and program a decent autonomous.
Well its going to be difficult to cap it in autonomous because the other robot will be going for it as well and will ram your robot and prevent it from capping cause capping has to be precise in order to work.
Exactly, their autonomous just went to the medium isolation goal and just ran into it. But we could have won, if it weren’t for the bugs the first seed robots kept experiencing. At the end they were ranked 4th.
Who said it needed to be from the interaction zone? 
I bet a robot will be able to cap from Isolation by worlds. And it doesn’t need to be in auton, you can just block the goal, then afterwards cap it.
lol I forgot about being able to score from the isolation zone.
Or you know, an awful lot sooner…
Lemma guess, you can do it hahaha. Maybe someone else is close to doing it as well?