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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
We got Frisbees stuck in our hopper for Ultimate Ascent several times in practice; we managed to improve the mechanism before bagging.
I saw about a half dozen matches in which litter got caught in robots' lifts or wheels or can burglars this year, not counting videos.
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Sorry, should clarify. I meant game pieces that could find their way into any exposed nook and cranny of your robot. Frisbees would get stuck in places where frisbees were meant to go, and under robots, lifting them off the ground in rare cases. Litter would go into places you didn't want it to go, but that was more of a "defense" issue.
I was talking about pieces you want to manipulate ending up in random spaces in your robot. The kind where you wonder, "how did that get there?" My team had plenty of those moments (along with the occasional loose screw), and it made us really think of ways to better contain the gamepieces, as well as isolate the rest of our robot from them.