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Originally Posted by billbo911
This is interesting as I never saw a single time at Sacramento where the towers missed a trigger. Now I must admit, I always focussed my attention on our minibot, so I might have missed yours. Ours is a bit of a tugboat, but it always triggers the tower, and even won several races.
By the way, you guys did a great job in Sacramento and deserved the win. Congratulations!
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I believe it was the very last elimination match when the minibot didn't trigger the tower. The thing is far too small to hit the bolts, and the switch on the top of the minibot that turns it off takes more force to depress than the limit switches on the tower. (Earlier in the day, we found out that if one of those minibots hit a tower with a hard stop instead of the cushion of the moving ones used in matches, the minibot will actually separate from the tower from the force of impact and go flying. I got a fun little cut on my finger from catching "Marvin" when he decided he wanted to try his hand at flying off the tower.)
Of all the matches that one of the 1868 minibots went up, that was the only time it didn't trigger a tower.