Re: Slack in the Overpass
 

Watching the webcasts of NJ & MidWest, there was noticable flex in the overpass when a bot would hit it. There was a ~2" 'bounce' at one point in the elims just from a launcher bot shooting the ball at it from underneath and hitting it.

This is a huge issue for us as we planned on setting our autonomous for a specific height -- if the overpass is too low we'll probably have the most hilarious high-speed flip-over in FIRST history -- 15ft/sec in hybrid :eek:. With the fatigue from the flexing, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw an overpass crack towards the end of the season -- hopefully the mounts for the overpass are replaced in between regionals.

Re: Slack in the Overpass
 

Trust me robots hit that overpass all week b/c they forgot to lower themselves before going under. That overpass is not going anywhere unless the regional assembles it wrong. Shockingly enough I didn't see really any extra spare pieces of the field like I did last year. I saw one piece of spare driver station plexi but that was it. I guess FIRST also feels confident the field won't break.

Re: Slack in the Overpass
 

Paul- you are right- the 78" would be to the top but the bottom spec says approx. 76.5. A 75" robot should have cleared. Not to dwell on this- we will and did adapt.

Next time we'll just have the robot leap the overpass and knock the balls off on the way......

:D