[liam.larkin]

A one second Deploy and Climb.......If it happens I shall bow down before that team and grovel and ask how they tolerate us mear mortals.....

But seriously. I think a whole bunch of teams have built minibots that climb in the sub 2.5-2.75 range. We even seen evidence of a few that are at just around a second.

The key as many of you have pointed out is the deployment time and/or method. It is quite difficult in the heat of the game to hit a 1 3/4 OD pipe from about what 40 ft. I have seen some teams with some manual line up devices that seem to work really well. I am also sure some teams ours included will use sensors and some nice programming to take the human factor out and let the robot line itself up manually. We will see I am very intrested to see who can show us on a consistent basis their ability to deploy and climb each round.

I trully believe if you can deploy/climb accuratly each round and even if it takes say 7 seconds you will be quite attractive at least for the first few weeks. But I guess we will all see sooner then later.