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Originally Posted by martin417
I watched some of the webcasts as well as some youtube videos later on. It appears that you are correct in that the polycarb is not rigid enough. If you look closely at the bridges, the polycarb seems to lie flat on the floor for most of its length, so it has no slope. If they were to add a small aluminum angle to each side, oriented upwards, it would help immensely. Maybe the increase in initial slope will help. We will have to wait for week two.
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Maybe for some teams, but the angle would be obliterated by robots like ours that can quite easily tip the bridge away and clean out balls from underneath it.
I think it would be very unfair to teams like mine who solved the original problem but would run a serious risk of 'damage to playing field' penalties if the field element design was changed radically.
We took the mentality that it was just another challenge to overcome and another feature to set our robot apart. I'll admit I'm a little disappointed with the change because it takes an advantage away from teams like ours that worked hard to have that extra capability.
/mild rant