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Re: Ball speed testing after matches

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Originally Posted by A. Snodgrass
It is. Its almost impossible to enforce, or it seemed like it at points. That might just be me though. How can one accurately tell from eyeballing if something is relatively close to 12m/s. Sure, you might be able to tell if something is going insanely fast, but its very difficult to actually say for certain that yes, that robot is violating the speed rule. And its possible that it will be left up to the decision of the referees whether to call somebody for violating the speed rule or not.

well alot of this is all on GP but there are some ways to tell. The distance away from the goal, the height of the ball, the trajectory (flat or parabolic), etc. Once you have seen something shoot at proper speed it becomes instantly apparent if you are over speed.
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