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Re: Are any teams planning on shooting the ball?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Anyone who's lived through Joe Ross canceling The Championships automatically defaults to suspicion of just about any extreme claim. That said, I, personally, do not doubt that there will be launching teams out there. There are multiple mechanisms that would be capable of this and some of them aren't even outrageously complicated.

I'm still curious how launching teams are planning on corralling these trackballs after the hurdle. Unless you're launching nearly vertical, those trackballs are going to have a pretty decent horizontal velocity and are going to bounce around a rather lot. That's assuming you don't have a human on the other end to politely catch the ball for you. So I think launching the ball will be easier in some respects, but I think you'll end up losing time recapturing the ball afterwards. Plus you don't get the bonus points for ending with the ball on the overpass unless you're really, really talented.
Although you may think it will be difficult to recapture the ball and take extra time, a non-shooting mechanism will most likely need to lower after hurdling the ball to fit under the overpass. Also, if the ball does travel far, it will eventually hit the wall, where it will come back to you, or hit the corner and go into the next quadrant of the field. Grabbing the ball after launch won't take anymore time than if you weren't shooting the ball and still hurdling. Another thing is that at the end of a match, hurdling is not worth that much less than if you place the ball on the overpass. The best case would be to hurdle the ball and have an alliance member 'bump' or pass the ball back to you so you could place, getting the most points possible.
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