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Re: Knocking the ball off: A viable and important strategy lost in the whims...
I agree.
One interesting thing I noted while watching the BAE Granite State Regional:
Several teams (134, 40, and 58 come to mind) had mechanisms that raised up high enough to knock the ball off from underneath the overpass. They could just drive underneath the ball and it would fall down. This was the fastest way to get the ball down, and usually worked great. However, such designs could not get a ball down if it was placed on the overpass between the normal trackball positions. Getting a trackball in this position is difficult, as it often falls off. I saw several times when the ball was placed in this position and many robots could not get it off. To remove this trackball required another alliance member to raise their arm or elevator and knock the trackball off from the top which was much slower.
I doubt if this will accually affect many (if any) matches, but it was interesting to see.
DB
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