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Re: Team update 3/6/2012

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Potentially addressing, you mean. It'll be interesting to see how well this modification performs at Week 2 events. It might make things worse by causing balls to collect right at the edge of the bridge where they're hardest to squish and most likely to cause difficulties. The only advantage is that they'll be slightly easier to remove there.
After looking at the modified field drawings, I definitely think this will improve things during week 2. The angle of the polycarbonate piece is greatly increased. Hopefully balls will, at worst, remain at the edge of the polycarbonate, allowing teams to simply push the balls out of the way with their drive train or intake them into their robot. Teams seemed to have the most problems during week 1 when the balls would escape the reach of most team's intakes or appendages under the bridge.
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