[Mullen]

when our team first started coming up with ideas we leaning towards a king of the hill bot, and we thought we had a really good idea because what we would use stuck to the sample piece of the platform that they gave us really really well. we ended up deciding on a stacker bot, it can do other things though. im glad we decided on this becuase before we shipped we got a chance to go drive on a field, out of curiosity i took a piece of the material we were gonna use and put it on the platform, slid like no other.

did the teams that decided to go for king of the hill test out their traction devices/suction-cups when the HDPE was DIRTY?

because the results for us were far different than when the HDPE was nice and clean, the platform will be clean for the first couple of matches but after a couple with robots running around on it and people stepping on it(dirty shoes) dirt will build up and some robots that thought they were sweet could now be almost usless