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Re: 2012 Lessons Learned:The Negative

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Originally Posted by Jim Zondag View Post
Team 33 experienced the same thing on Galileo. We thought that the new balls put in for Elims felt very different and our alliance missed most of the Hybrid shots.
The error appear larger than what we had seen before at any of the other events, so it did seem that these ball may have been 'more different'. There will always be variables outside of the control of the teams, and playing peice variablity is always one of these. I think that dealing with ball variablitity was our biggest challenge in developing the robot this year.
We dealt with the same issue. Prior to the Galileo eliminations, we were able to deal with new balls being cycled in - we had the ability to slow down our shooter from the driver station, plus we got a pretty good idea of where we needed to park with new balls. The new balls on Galileo went much further than any others we experienced - this was with the shooter turned down and parked at the very back of the key. Not to mention that we knelt on, jumped up and down on, compressed the balls as much as possible before the match - didn't seem to do much good.

We have a couple of things that we want to try for the offseason to try to get more consistency between new and old balls. We'll probably get it figured out just as all the competitions are over and we need to start planning for next year.
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