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Re: Throwing the ringers.

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Originally Posted by cam1031 View Post
honestly throwing the ringers in my mind is a ridiculus idea there is just too many variables:
-inflation of ringers
-air current in arena
-movement of rack
-the little rubber stopper on top of the circle

and the accuracy of the robot would have to be exact to get it on
Doesn't stop proffesional athletes from performing similar feats. Now granted this is a little less intuitive than say throwing a baseball but practice can make perfect. We were albe to do ok with 15 mph gusts of wind in an outside environment. In this type of scenario you could practice and probably get pretty good at doing it. 2 or 3 out of 9 in the shorter amount of time to do it wouldn't be a bad deal at all.

Edit: Also in rereading your post I think your confused as to what we are talking about, we are talking about the human player throwing them not the robots.
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Last edited by Dan Richardson : 24-01-2007 at 22:43. Reason: reread the quoted post