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Re: Placing tubes in tower

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Originally Posted by MattC9 View Post
Its not worth it for a few reasons:


1. They don't fall to the bottom of the pole, so it almost useless. This happened at Alamo by accident, penalty's were award as needed.

2. I was our teams HP and during our build I tried to ring the mini-bot pole on our practice field to see if it was possible, and it was verryyyyy hard to do.

3. You would spend most of your match time trying to ring the pole and if you missed you would end up giving the other alliance tube's rather than helping you own alliance.
At west michigan a white logo piece managed to fall down to the base of the tower and a robot could not deploy to that tower.