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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

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Originally Posted by The Lucas View Post
Forgive me if I'm missing something (I haven't actually seen it but I hope to tomorrow), but how does 190 retract this hurdling mechanism without moving it in a clockwise direction, particularly with respect to the opposing finish line(which they have already CROSSED)? I would imagine that even after dropping the ball, the mechanism would relax in a clockwise motion across the opposing finish line thus breaking <G22>. Am I making sense, because this is something I thought about before but never tried to communicate?

We have two electrical slip-rings in our turret that allow us to do an infinite number of rotations without ever having to go in reverse. The turret should never move in a clockwise direction, with the possible exception while placing the ball on our overpass in the endgame.
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