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Smile Re: How can we drive on this new floor?

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed View Post
Shade of 2003.
Teams used suction cups to plant themselves at the top of the ramp. That worked for the first few matches and then after getting ran over by robots for a while the field surface got worn down a bit and the suction cups stopped working.
I suspect the same would happen this year as well.
I see your point, but that math was done assuming that the suction cups are about 1/2 to 1/4 of an inch off the ground. They would be more like a hover craft in reverse then suction cups.
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