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Originally Posted by Aroki
I would avoid floor pickup, (in my opinion at least) the advantage of being able to pick up from the floor is less than the difficulty of designing a mechanism that picks up and can also orient the frisbees, and the time spent doing that would be better spent making a good climber and/or a reliable shooter/loader robot. This also removes the need for a floor pickup to magazine mechanism
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Silly silly silly. This paragraph is wrought with ill-conceived notions of this game.
A robot which sacrifices a complex hanger in lieu of a good autonomous which nets the 4 floor discs into the high goal is more valuable than a robot which sacrifices floor pickup for a 30-point hang. (24-pt auton from floor + 10-pt hang > 30-pt hang). That said, a 6-7 disc autonomous is just as hard (IMO) as a 30-point hang, and only one robot on an alliance is eligible to pickup 4 discs in a single auton. Yet the point is that there's a very good case for pickup from the floor for 2 robots on an alliance.
There's also good discussion about whether there will even BE any upside-down discs.
(edit -- sorry for the thread hijack -- the OP should keep trying with their floor pickup endeavors, IMO)