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Originally Posted by mrnoble
Why?
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Something people are forgetting is that if you have a low shooter, due to the nature of virtually no safe zones besides the outer works, all that a team has to do to block you is strap pool noodles onto a kit bot and your shooter is rendered useless. Even with the outer works safe zone, your shooter better be getting the ball to 54" tall before it leaves your frame perimeter or its getting blocked. My team was considering the low bar for the first week of build season and we ruled it out for that reason along with the difficulty of compacting all components of the robots in that small of footprint, because a team with my team's level of resources (3 mentors, two that are technical), building a good shooter that can do tasks other than the low bar is a much better option than forcing a design contstraint that causes more problems than it fixes.