Our intake is rotating rubber hose. It slows down the balls no matter what speed they come in, and feed them to our elevator/storage system at a constant speed. We decided to use this system because we thought it would make it easiest to pick up from both sides, and it was what was available to us at both sides. It also plays into our strategy in the event one of the balls gets jammed, we can reverse the rollers and spit out the balls without getting rid of the ones in the elevator. Furthermore, we can use that to feed balls to an alliance member if needed. It's a pretty good kicker.

The shooter results have been excellent! Instead of having control over the horizontal angle of the shooter via a turret, we decided to have vertical control by being able to change the shooting angle, and the shooting power, if needed. It executes beautifully, and gives us consistent scores on the middle and top hoops.