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Originally Posted by New Lightning
So I had this thought today as we were reviewing out prototyped shooters and I realized that we had a lot of force coming out of these shooters. My concern would be what would be the ruling if we shot the ball into the high goal, but there was so much force on the ball that it bounced off the backboard and rebounded back into the field. Would that still count as a score or would we have to shoot it back into the goal again?
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Yes, they only count a boulder if it falls down the tower and passes through the sensors before rolling into the corral. The chains do stop almost all of the boulders from bouncing out, but there are times when I have seen a boulder launched into the high goal when the bot isn't quite square with the goal, and the ball will pass in one and out the other, and I have also scene a boulder bounce back out off of the chains. This happened to our bot maybe twice at the Northern Lights Regional. I don't think it has so much to do with the power of the launcher, as it does just plain bad luck.