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Originally Posted by JesseK
To me, 1114's ball launching idea for 2008 was innovative since it not only did what others thought impossible (punch the ball over the overpass) but it also did so in such an elegant design that I'm surprised the design itself hasn't received more attention. Everything fit together so well that year on that bot.
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1114's 2008 robot was certainly a beautiful piece of work, but there were plenty of teams that punched the ball over the overpass.
If anyone gets impossible points it is 469 in 2010 having the returning balls score themselves. I imagine most teams thought "Huh, that would be crazy if...", a few teams prototyped it, and exactly one really got it to work. And boy oh boy did it work.