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Re: What did we learn from week 2 of the 2013 season?

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Originally Posted by Becca334 View Post
All cameras from teams can be turned off if FTA thinks cameras cause field issues. Even teams with vision tracking had to turn their cameras off at NYC.
That's really distressing. It's akin to telling teams halfway through a regional that CAN is now illegal. Or using PID control or something. The affected teams need to raise a fuss about that so it gets addressed by FIRST HQ.
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Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink View Post
Variable elevation shooters are the biggest cause of missed shots/reduced cycles for so many teams. First, because teams just miss. Second, because it slows the whole cycle down (position robot, adjust shooter, shoot, adjust, shoot, adjust, shoot, shoot).
You mean manually adjusted variable angle shooters. Speaking as a variable angle shooter that was pretty darned accurate shooting from the back or the front of the pyramid.
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