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Re: Car Nack Reluctantly Predicts 2/06

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Originally Posted by T. Hoffman
Quite right. With all this talk of shooting 10+ balls/sec into the center goal, I wonder if it's possible to saturate and jam the goal full of balls so that they can't properly fall one by one down the scoring tube.

If this is possible, I wonder if a FIRST volunteer or ref is supposed to jar the balls loose when jammed or just leave them alone.
I believe that the chain and the sloped ramp in the center goal will prevent 99.90% of jamming. I think that FIRST worked hard to develop a system that would not break so easily, If anything FIRST probably overestimated first teams abilities

lets work hard to prove them wrong
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