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Originally Posted by farmersvilleRob
On the three shot robot, there is absolutely no way to load 3 balls at a time, and shoot all three with a spitting bot or any bot for that matter. The balls simply are too heavy. Also, the bridge bot would take a lot of weight in pieces alone to get the balancing right (i.e. wormgear secondary drive to lock position.). Also, balancing isn't inside it's own special timeframe like the autonomous period is. That means one team will have to sacrifice probably 30 seconds (1/4 the game) to just attempt to balance by themselves. That being said, a competent robot that can score will have more at least 10 points without having to worry about the probably of not balancing. Also, it wont be sabotaged in balancing. If I were the other team and saw someone balancing, i would simply take a 3 point foul and touch the bridge to make it "not supporting all robots) instead of have a team score 10-20 points off a chassis bot basically.
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Firstly, my team didn't even consider a design that held less then three balls, there are literally hundreds of different ways you could do that. Basically any competitive robot will be able to hold three balls- they are not heavy. Secondly, bridge balancing does not actually require anything more then a something to push the bridge down and a practiced driver. Balancing more then one requires a bit more precision, and three is quite a trick but one is very doable without any fancy stuff (like worm gears?).
And finally,
[G25] Robots may not contact or otherwise interfere with the opposing Alliance Bridge. Violation: Technical-Foul. If the act of Balancing is interfered with, also a Red Card and the Bridge will be counted as Balanced.
You need to get your facts straight or you're going to be very suprised come competition season.
Regards, Bryan