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Unread 04-03-2012, 19:54
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Re: Ball deflectors.....don't

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Originally Posted by Gary Dillard View Post
The head referee at Smoky Mountains came to our team and the team next to us in the pits first thing Friday morning and asked to speak with the drive teams; he specifically told us we were allowed to have a fifth person that did not count toward our 4 on the drive team that could stand on the side of the court and give hand signals. I assume he did the same to all the teams there.
At GSR we were told that we could have the Safety Captain handle the robot cart, and stand on the sidelines with the carts. We were not told that he/she could give hand signals, though I suppose you could.

The 'solution' is for drivers to recognize how a bridge behaves when a ball is trapped in a place they can't see. If it's not working, stop trying to drop the bridge and figure out a way to either tip it up to clear the ball or pursue something else.

It is possible for a robot to get on the bridge from the other side and 'crush' the ball enough in most cases for a second robot to get on the bridge on the ball side. It depends on where the ball is under the bridge and how much of a lip the robot can climb over.
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