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Re: pic: 186 2004

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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley View Post
Team 237 comes to mind here (Elgin...maybe you have vids?)

They had a "hook" with rollers inside of it that would allow them to strafe back and forth WHILE hanging on the bar. Theres a picture floating around on delphi of us (Team 11) hanging on their claw mechanism at the NJ regional in 04.

Another team, 190, hung from the bar in autonomous and deployed flaps that covered the top of the bar so teams could not get their hooks on them unless they lifted their flap up for you.


Check out some videos from 2004 if you can, it was a really exciting year.

I'd estimate the bar to be about 8-10 feet long, can anyone else second this?

-Brando
Yeah it looks like the bar was a little bit less than 8' long, according to this http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedfiles/community/frc/team_resources/archived_game_docs/2004%20-%20the%20game.pdf?fragment=False&terms=raising%20t he%20bar&SearchType=ExactPhrase


I also remember 190 from 2004, we played against them in Arizona...I feel sorry for the way we got on the bar, but we needed the 50 points. But the next time we came up against them, they moved the flap so we didn't break it. I really liked their strategy though, very cool
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