[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

for those of us who remember, Tipping five years ago was almost an every match occurance. I honestly miss robots tipping over, those were the days...

Start an FTC team. The small chassis sizes combined with high-friction wheels and tons of torque motors results in robots that go down more often than submarines with screen doors. On the other hand, a really large number of them this year were self-righting. 575 must have flipped over backwards an average of three times per match, and was not unusual. The faster the robot, the more likely they were to go over. With 575 it was accelerate too hard, flip over, whack bucket over the top while accelerating hard and the robot was back up and running.