Re: Aim Well
 

Look for a human player that plays soccer. When you throw a ball back into play during soccer you throw overhead which mimics throwing over the wall. Our guy is dead accurate.

Re: Aim Well
 

hm... so is anybody else doing both (picking up from ground and catching balls)?

Re: Aim Well
 

Our hopper is open as well. We don't plan on mainly throwing into the hopper with our HP, but if for some reason our ball-picker-upper malfunctions, a plan B is always nice. It's the little things that aid the drivers/HPs that make a good robot great. Especially with a physical game like this year's, having a flexible design is critical in case one of the mechanisms doesn't work properly.

Re: Aim Well
 

Hear, hear!

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It may warrant a big advantage depending on how good your human player is. If your player is better than your ball loader, it's huge.