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Originally posted by Tyler 178
From watching the Buckeye (ohio) regional, it seems like not very many stackers were succesful.
Only one team had a really good stacker that I saw and that was team 0073. They were 2002 overall champions. So as a vetran team, they had a good bot.
Their tallest stack was 4 high.
Props to team 0073! Your bot was awesome, and you guys should have gone on to finals, you deserved it.
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73 wasn't a Champion last year. They didn't even compete
Tigerbolt/Visioneers won the Championship in 1996, if I recall correctly.
Before competing, their stacker was optimized for stacks over 4 bins tall. Anything smaller presented a challenge to release. After Thursday's practice rounds, and a bit on Friday, they changed things so it was optimized for stacks of 4 or less. It can go higher still, but isn't as efficient.
Still, it's a very impressive system for bringing in bins, and given the history of such systems being used to bring in balls, I'm surprised we didn't see it used more.