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Re: Winning strategies from winning teams
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Originally Posted by Japper
I wonder if anyone came up with a strategy to deal with getting the balls out from under the bridge...
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Sure we (1986) did. Reach under the bridge with a 14" appendage and draw the balls into your collector.
We played in week 1 and week 4. I must say that flipping the lexan piece over to increase the angle under the bridge made a huge difference. The only balls that really caused a problem were ones the driver bumped under the bridge as he was trying to ascend. It is a blind spot and can easily happen. If we let our collector run as we tried to climb we found any ball in the way got sucked into the robot and was no longer a problem.
Also if your shooters are so hungry for balls that they scoop up everything there won't be any left on your side of the field to interfere with the bridge. When we played with 16 in KC they started the match by going to the other side of the field to get balls knowing that together we would shoot them all. When we played with 1985 in St. Louis we on occasion would venture to the other side of the field because there were no balls left on our side and it was way too early to go for bridges.
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