[jamestautges]

Then that brings up the issue of positioning the shooting and recieving robots. I suppose you could do something with adjusting your location based on the observed trajectory of the ball, but what I would really like to see is the adoption of standard optical reference points on each robot. These could just be four orange stickers placed in a square on the catching side of the robot and could make this sort of alignment infinitely easier.

Of course then you have to get everybody to do it so you can be sure your alliance partners will have them. But considering the difficulty of a successful ariel pass, this could be worth the effort.