[Doug G]

Now you asked for average capping speed, so not including those teams that are generally unsuccessful cappers, you got to figure 25+ seconds. I know there will be a few teams at each regional capping in under 10 seconds, but most won't. We used our robot from 2003 yesterday and attached a makeshift grabber to its arm and the best we did was 45 seconds from driving to a tetra picking it up and capping a regular sized goal. Now I figure with more practice and a better designed arm / robot we might get that down to 15 seconds. Under 10 seconds? - wow that'll be fun to watch. Oh yea, what about those other 5 robots on the field that'll be getting in way most of the time? Hmm, should be interesting.