[Thad House]

I'm perfectly fine with inspectors expecting this at events. Anything spring-loaded or pneumatically actuated can be much more dangerous then people expect.

Because of the frame perimeter rules, our robot has to start a match with the catapult cocked because otherwise it sticks out of the perimeter. What we do while it i like this is we run a tie-down across the catapult to a few eyehooks on each side. It was very easy to put in, and any team that moves with lots of stored energy should do this. Now if they would let us start outside the frame perimeter in the name of safety, we could solve a decent amount of these problems, but they will never do that.