[Curt Henderson]

I think it's interesting that teams are now starting to see the importance of getting the ball down off the overpass as early as possible in the match. When my team (1501) started talking about making a shooter after many long discussions of other types of game play, we realized that to maximize your scoring effort, getting the ball down was key. We tasked a group to concentrate on finding a way to get the ball down and they were successful. They found a very simple and effect device, that along with some very good autonomous programming by our students provide amazing results. I would love to be the one to reveal the design here but we have purposely choosen to keep it under wraps from all public displays. We have intensionally with held it from preship competitions and postings due to its easy replications from other teams. We are very excited about our design and will reveal it this week at the BMR Regional at which point we feel we will see many clones on other robots in the weeks to follow.