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Originally Posted by philso

Have you considered reducing the amount of back-spin you are imparting on the Boulder.

In the real world, you get credit for finishing the job you are asked to do. In this case, your true objective is not really to get the Boulder to enter the opening of the Goal. It is to get the Boulder to trip the Counting Mechanism that is several feet below the opening of the Goal

We use a catapult and using our slow motion camera we have almost 0 back spin. We throw it just as hard as we need to in order to have a large sweet spot. Watch our robot's autonomous (low bar blue robot). Sometimes the chains just act like a swing and spit you right back out despite your design. It's almost comical how it spits it right back out at us haha.