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Originally Posted by John_1102
Is there a reason why you chose not to use it again this season?
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Sure. Shooting this year is a lot different than last year.
Last year there was no hard object to align with in the safe zone, the goals were only twice as wide as a ball, our camera tracking wasn't getting us close enough to be a consistent shooter, and camera alignment was taking too much time.
This year there is the pyramid, so lining up is easy to do manually. The goals are about 4 times as wide, so the margin for error is larger. Our camera tracking doesn't need to be nearly as precise, so it can be much faster.
Oh, and we do have a photon cannon on the bot this year. We just don't use it to align with the goal for normal shooting. =-]