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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
air pressure is only one variable that teams will encounter
do not plan to calibrate / adjust your shooting mechanics to swoosh balls through the center goal from 40 feet out at you facilities, and then ship the bot and expect it to do the same thing at every event
every team is going to need a way to tweak (fine tune) there shooters and launchers and foam nerfy ball flingers at the events.
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Also, I think just the way the nerf balls will get dinged, dented, sliced, mutilated and/or decapitated in competitions will have more impact on their trajectory than differences of at most only one PSI* or so of difference in air pressure.
* The difference of air pressure should not be that great. The difference in air pressure from the inside of a commercial jet to the outside environment at 35,000 feet is only 8 PSI. That's it. Even Denver, The Mile High City, has an altitude of 5,280 feet above sea level - or in other terms 1/7th the altitude of a cruising altitude for commercial airliners.
Also, because of the climate control in some buildings, the interior air pressure might be up to 1 PSI higher than the exterior air pressure. The reason for this is that the heating/air conditioning units put more air into the building that it lets out. This is true for a lot of skyscrapers in large cities. This might be true for some competition venues as well.