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Re: 148's "secret weapon"

You could improve this design in code. It's a little dirty, but hey, creative
It is similar to electronically assisted minibot deployment last year.

The Robowranglers match where they fell off the bridge proved that you only need to be balanced at the end of the match (within the allowance). The strategy goes like this: You get all three robots on the bridge and assist the Balanchine using the pneumatic stinger. The stinger would be long enough so that it would fully balance the bridge. Just before the match ends, the robot code retracts it. Because everything with mass has inertia, it will take the bridge a certain amount of time to tip past the point that it is considered "balanced". If they fall after the match ends, then it doesn't matter.

This way, as long as the robots are close enough to balanced, they will be able to score bridge points.

Hopefully this made sense
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