[EricH]

Originally Posted by Squirrel Lord

Please read the thread before posting, this has been posted many times.

He has a point. If the shooter stops and isn't raising the trackball, it can be hit. It won't be protected until the ball starts moving. Whereas, an arm/lift robot has protection until it releases above the overpass (it would be either raising or moving, or both). Just something to think about.

By the way, we are almost to the point where one side or the other will outperform the other. On the whole, they seem pretty even. There are exceptional arm robots and mediocre ones. The same for shooters. We will see what happens with exceptional arm vs. exceptional shooter, mediocre arm vs. mediocre shooter, and one mediocre and one exceptional (both ways).

Prediction: Those robots whose hurdling mechanism is... ummm...shall we say... less than mediocre will quickly find themselves running a lot of laps.