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Quick and dirty fix:
Get a coat hangar
Before the match, discharge the HDPE by placing the hangar across the HDPE and the wire mesh.
After the match, place the hangar from the frame of your bot to the wire mesh.
This won't help static electricity built up during the match, but will minimize it and keep you from getting shocked when you pick up the bot.
Semi-related life experience:
I play volleyball. We play on a surface called sport court, which is a high density plastic. We also wear gum rubber soled shoes. As you can imagine there is quite a bit of static electricity. You get used to getting shocked by the floor every time you dive or touch a wall, but one unpleasant experience is getting your tongue shocked by water from the water fountain. It burns like heck and then your tongue goes numb for about 15 mins. So we have learned to discharge the water with a finger (or let someone else discharge it). This same lessons can be applied to robotics
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