The external pick up referred to is part of a floor pick up that's outside frame perimeter to more aggressively pick up frisbees. Unfortunately the mechanism wasn't optimized at Lone Star so it was faster to go to the feeder station. We are making some changes and hopefully we'll be using it in Salt Lake City.
17ft/sec is theoretical speed not adjusted for speed loss. I don't know what matches you saw but on Saturday we were meeting more defense. We weren't able to use the full speed across the field as much as we were earlier on on Friday. By SVR our drivers will be nipping around the field
