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Re: Climb and Dump Club

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Originally Posted by Jeffy View Post
1619 was able to climb and dump this weekend. They took a few spills, but the damage never seemed fatal. The climb was somewhere in the range of 20 seconds, but the lineup time was sometimes over a minute, or couldn't be fit into a match.
We became extremely cautious in aligning after falling from the 3rd level (and all we broke was a machine screw!) I wish we took more opportunities to dump discs, but we changed our strategy after our second tumble: We'd get discs from the feeder station, but an opposing team would wait at the midfield for us to cross, then ram us (causing a minimum of the discs to fly out of the presenter, or at worst, a tipped 'bot). This was a very fun season, falls notwithstanding.