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Re: Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

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Originally Posted by JHammond View Post
Would not be surprised if the GDC did not anticipate human players throwing discs at a vertical orientation high and hard so that some carried 10+ feet over the field ends or spun out far beyond the corner of a field. In practice these flew very differently than a traditional horizontal Frisbee throw. They were more like missiles than anything at the Nashua event. You'd get 5 or 6 of these high hard throws in the air and it was a bit dicey.
Seconded. Our human players had to be careful not to get brained by frisbees.
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