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Re: ball counter
as a scorekeeper at the Orlando regional I observed the miscount in the lower goals.
90% of the time the errors were caused by a robot slamming into the wall. This causes the camera-counter to move. False counts are then generated. Thus your team should be willing to accept the human-generated counts if your robot causes the computer counts to fail.
We hand counted all the Orlando matches. Only one match outcome was different between the hand-count and computer-count. in that match, the head referee made the scoring decision.
My advice to the drivers, avoid hitting the wall when putting balls in the lower goal. I know that the goal is more than 52 feet from where you stand. but, your team has the ability to provide high power-levels to the wheels. They should also be good enough to put a range sensor on the robot, to tell you how close you are to the wall.
jerry w
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