[Tom I]

I'll throw this one out for public scruitiny...
My team (811, the Cardinals) decided early on that throwers would probably have the advantage in this years game. We thought the functionality of a shooter would benifit us in competition. When we got to the GSR, we found that reality was a different situation. Our shooting performance was no where near as good as we hoped, and we all too commonly unloaded a hopper full of balls into the space where a trailer had occupied moments before. We reassessed the situtation, and actually made a slight change in our design... we added a lexan deflector just past our shooter, which knocked the balls comming out of our shooter downward. This way, we got the full speed and power of our shooter, but aimed down to dumping. With this adjustment, we became a much better scoring team, and we were pleased with the results. In this game, shooting was a very difficult task. If accomplished it was invaluable, but it was very difficult for most teams.