[lamk]

My team just won the Western Canada Regional yesterday. During practice match we tried all sort of techniques playing with the chute door and the angle we put the tote in to get the tote to fall properly with no success. 50% of time it will end up wrong: upside down , side ways, vertical, you name it. We also make sure that we have the head ref's blessing about "dragging" the totes with the door. We end up abandoning manipulating with the chute door. Instead we open our robot's arm fully and run the robot arm against the wall so that when the tote come down it will bump into the robot first and we got it perfect every time for the whole competition. I talk to my team about building a ramp at the competition but once we found the technique we did not build a ramp. I'm not sure if this experience will help the original poster or not though.