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Originally Posted by Nemo
Our team is trying to figure out how to climb the corners, but it definitely does not seem simple. I agree that it is humbling.
We're looking at ways of sitting on the corner joints (the only decent place to sit in a transition between levels) and pulling up on the next corner joint. We have ideas (none simple), and at the stage we're at, I am looking at it more as a system where there are several little climbing subsystems that have to be designed and tweaked properly for the overall scheme to work. I see us slogging through all of the details and prototyping and testing and iterating as opposed to having a flash of insight that makes it twice as easy as we thought it would be.
Our first regional is Kansas City. If we don't do a level 3 climber, I think we'll show up and see that 1625/1730/1986/etc have brought their L3 climbers that also shoot frisbees. If they do, good luck winning with a 10 point hanger. Hard or not, we really want to climb to the top. If we are forced to fall back on a 10 point climber, it won't be for lack of trying.
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One thing to remember that 3 robots at the 30 point level (90) will not be done but 1 or 2 times in the 6 weeks of competing. I think the a 10, 20, 30 point combo will be seen more often, I think we will see a lot of 10, 10, 20 so even if you are a 10 point hanger there is a place for you. Remember if you fall 3 to 5 feet trying a 30 point hang your weekend will be over.