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Here's some of the stuff I got today looking at the practice/scrimmage that happened at Watchung Hills in NJ.

You really have to pay attention and take it slow on the bridge

Omni wheels make it very hard to balance on the bridge and keep good control

If your using a reverse cowcatcher to bring the bridge down, it needs to be outside your bumper zone and you must apply a solid amount of force

Human players can throw balls across the field easily in the last 30 seconds, but accuracy is hard

When camera tracking, the trend in errors tends to be too much power as opposed to not enough

A ball caught in one side of the bridge is a problem. Multiple balls caught on both sides of the bridge is a fatal flaw. The sloped pieces of poly carbonate were not effective at all on the field we had.

Balls often get caught in between the wall and the netting that rises above the wall to prevent them from leaving the court. I'm curious to see how these will get undone, as dislodging them may interfere with the drivers in the drivers station.

The bridges tend to rock for 5-10 seconds after you drop off of them

When human players are throwing balls in the last 30 seconds, they have to be very careful of not stepping outside of their designated area. I saw a lot of potential foot faults today as various people threw them across the field.

Didn't see any mecanum drive trains yet (although there were only a handful of robots there)