[GeorgeM]

It was a great design/idea that 469 had!

Their cycle time would not have been as fast as it was if not for this double disc loading.

As mentioned above, most teams did not design their robot anticipating this was possible. More than one disc would definitely jam their loading mechanism.

I don't think there is a huge variation on the style of loading, however there is a correlation between how human players load and their loading time...obviously.

I was with a team that loaded extremely fast - had all four discs ready for loading before the robot made it to the station, and with a quick motion, slid the discs one by one (quickly) into the feeder.

There was another team that waited for their robot to come to the feeder station, fed one to the robot, picked up another disc from beside them, fed it in, and frankly it was aggravating to watch!

After I pointed that out to the team it looked like their speed and efficiency grew enormously.

But I digress - The point is that most teams intake can only support one disc at a time, whereas Las Guerillas' nicely designed intake is a simple drop.(Reminiscent of Lunacy intakes, except upside down).