[EricH]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

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.

And both teams came up against 330 (slider) in competition at least once... and 190 almost got up, but something got stuck on 330's robot and they had to come down. 237 found themselves blocked from getting up or pinned on the bar, I forget which.

Also, I don't think 190 went all the way up in auto; the video shows them waiting.

The other sliders that I know about were 1266 (rookies), 64 (big gila-monster colored box), and 868, who made it to Einstein. 190 and 330 had the added bonus that they could de-score an opponent's big doubler ball, with 190 being able to take it over the bar and put it on their own goal. Matter of fact, 330 designed to do that, but didn't end up being able to; that's why they could slide (in case of position being shifted by opposing robots).