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Unread 21-01-2004, 09:20
Dave Hurt Dave Hurt is offline
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Re: Falling off the bar... :\

Eh, if I can remember from 2000, there were only a few times a robot actually fell off the bar. I was personally involved in one such incident, we had a hook and winch to pull our robot on the bar. Another machine was already on the bar, and we hooked on right next to them. In the process of pulling ourselves up, we got underneith them and lifted them clean off the bar. Their machine was built like a tank though, and didn't suffer any damages that I knew of.

As for what happens on the bar... it's the same thing as first has said about most of the previous competitions. You try to get up there, anything can happen. They said the same thing in 99 with the platform, and in 2000 with the bar.
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