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Originally Posted by colt527
If someone has a really good first hand account of a minibot that definitely did not hit the bolt and definitely did not bounce off too fast and still did not get triggered, please speak up so that the cause can be investigated.
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Ken, what would be considered bouncing off too fast? What is the duration that teams need to contact the disc to ensure that the target is triggered?
Ken's point is a very valid one. Does anyone have any video of Minibots hitting the top target but not triggering the target during week 2? Right now we're just dealing in speculation which isn't leading to anything productive. From what I saw in Pittsburgh, the large majority of minibots were in fact triggering the top target. If this wasn't the case at a regional you were attending, let's try and figure out what the issue was that was causing these false negatives.
If the issue was minibots hitting the bolt heads, that's unfortunate but it can be argued that teams should have been prepared for that based on the published drawings. (I may consider that a flimsy argument, but that's neither here nor there) If the issue is that teams aren't contacting the top target for long enough, I'm more concerned as nowhere in any official specification or guideline have I seen a duration of impact clause.