[Madison]

Originally Posted by emmell

So are they running it as a scrimmage, because there are some matches being played (or so it appears).

I love 157's "behind the back" dunker mechanism.

The event continued as a scrimmage and that gave everyone valuable time to iron out any continuing issues with getting their robots to play nicely with the FMS.

Originally Posted by ttldomination

After watching a few of the videos and look at pictures from other competitions, it would seem to be that most teams are going for the claw route rather than some sort of suction mechanism...are the rings really that hard to intake?

There were a handful of teams that had something equivalent to a roller claw on their machines. Unfortunately, I was too busy worrying about getting our own robots working and tuned to pay much attention to how effective other teams were. One of our machines is a simple four-bar linkage lifting system with an actuated bucket on the end and it did very well in practice.