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Re: Will this year's game be a war of attrition?

I must agree with Matt C. In 2007 teams that were successful at putting up tubes quickly became targets. There was a ton of full on collisions. As Matt C also points out this is the year before mandatory bumpers.

With this in mind teams must build objects i.e manipulators that will extend outside the bumper zone to "take/absorb/withstand/(insert adj.)" high speed collisions.

Hint: Hopefully our video from last night at 816's home field. THANKS AGAIN 816. Will be up shortly I hope. Shows two but equal effective ways to build manipulators to withstand collisions.

In our case 272 our manipulator can move "freely" along the horizontal so blows are disapated. 816 just built yet another engineering marvel and its built like a brick you know what and as some of our collisions last night proved. 816 and 272 can withstand a hit or two for sure
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