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Re: To All Ramp Bots.

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Originally Posted by Rosiebotboss View Post
Our tracks are there for a purpose. We used angle aluminum for the structure with the angle 'up' so a driver would have an easier time driving up using the sides as a guard rail to stay on. If you can climb a 17 degree slope and have 1 inch of ground clearance, you can climb us. And I would think that teams would design this into their chassis right from the start.
I was amazed at St. Louis how many robots put zero thought into climbing ramps. We never had two robots allied with us that could climb an 18 degree ramp during all the qualification matches. We never got to test our ramp lift until the quarter finals when we finally had two partners who could climb a ramp.