Thread: Was the Low Bar worth it?
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Re: Was the Low Bar worth it?
We chose to not go low bar, and I'm 100% certain that was the right choice for us. I don't believe we had the design experience to have pulled that packaging off effectively.

HOWEVER. Our high CG was absolutely our Achilles heel. Tipping cost us a regional win, and I believe it also cost us Carson. Given the chance to redesign this robot, I would completely re-work our shooting mechanism to bring it down way lower and back in the robot so that we could still have our undefendable OW shot but without such a CG penalty. Probably not a full-on low bar robot though.
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