[MaxMax161]

I think our success with the tubes is probably mainly due to our human player's talent and shear height. Our human player is built LARGE and did a lot of sports before he realized that robotics is more awesome. We try not to reinflate tubes until they are noticeably flat in order to replicate competition settings.

Well so far we've used an all but accurate tower base (3/4'' short) and/or some chairs to simulate towers and they don't seem to be a problem. We also have a feeder station ect built to spec which hasn't been a problem yet.

I do think that with all the robots wizzing around the field getting tubes in to the scoring zone wouldn't be easy. That said there may be a few openings in the game when a tube could get trough (maybe 4+/6 robots are hanging tubes or getting them from the feeder station) and I'd like to be able to take advantage of those. Every point counts.

Something I didn't mention in the thread starter, we've had pretty much total success getting all three tubes where ever we want them in the feeding lane; what about you guys? Also, we haven't done as much practice with this but how accurately can your guys get tubes in the middle of the field?