We don't get to use weapons during the actual game. After the competition, there is a demolition round where we can use weapons. A great way to end the competition every year. As such we are using omni drive so that we can solve the tasks rather than worrying too much about weapons etc. You can put as many cones as you want on a rod but you only score points by getting as many cones on top of the rods as possible. Here's the map if you are interested
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After discussing I think we may go ahead with our friction gripper as it may be much more simpler/efficient. We could also modify our gripper to get or place one cone/a whole stack of cones at one go.