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Re: Shooter consistency

You can have the best shooter consistency but you have to feed it first.

195 at Virginia could snipe cross field, but they suffered one flaw. THe hopper into the shooter was poorly fed. They had to jostle the robot to get it down several times, that threw off the aim.

1610 had jam issues twice and two different ways. They could get up close enough to the bar and touch it to line up but if the hopper jammed, it was for naught.

I saw another half dozen such jams, poor feeding issues, etc.

Great shooter or not, consistent or not, your hopper/feeder has got to provide the Frisbee.
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