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Re: Goal capacity

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Originally Posted by Siri View Post
This nomeclature is going to take some getting used to, but I'm pretty sure he's talking about the HIGH GOAL not the PYRAMID GOAL (capitalized the way FIRST does in the manual).

I had the same question about the HIGH GOAL. Thanks for the photos, Kim! Makes me slightly less nervous, but maybe someone has tested it specifically and can comment on bouncing out potential as the goal fills?
Funny thing is that I originally wrote a post about the High goal, but then changed my response thinking they must have been worried about the pyramid goal... ::sigh:: thinking too fast

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Originally Posted by ehfeinberg View Post
It looks like it wont be a problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4cILBW-xM

About 2:30 seconds in you see how once a disc enters a goal, it drops down into a large bin. Shouldn't be a problem
The only thing to note about that video is that the bottom of the blue high goal bin (red one shown here) is missing... (It was removed since it was hard to get the frisbees out of that level without a ladder) which might be what people are concerned about. However we did a handful of tests throwing into the top goal and didnt see any issues with them coming out at all. I only remember ever seeing one bounce out. The bins are reasonably deep and the chains do a good job dampening the frisbees.
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