[EricH]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

980 in 2003. It was an 18ft telescoping pole that spun around horizontally. It nearly clipped a ref in the head a couple times.

That was before they got it under control... Which if they hadn't, they'd have been DQ'd from more than one event. Anybody within 20 feet was at risk (the last couple feet from the shock of the near-miss).

Oh, and did I mention that the only thing powering it out--or in!--was physics--no cable, spring, or anything. Gravity and centripetal force outbound, gravity alone inbound (at least there was a latch to keep it in once it passed a certain point).


I was a bit scared by the 1197 robot this last year--you knew when the shooter was on, and I kind of didn't want to be directly in front of it.