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Re: New VEX Game Announced!

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
So in my endless quest to play with design ideas for a game I'm not playing, I'm currently working on a design very similar to FRC 1625's robot in FRC, but with an omni drive chassis so that you can slide horizontally along the wall to avoid robots trying to play defense. Ideally the hopper would be able to "catch" some of the balls people are throwing over, too

Having the 3-part tread with really wide feed solves the different length issues, but the problem arises with the slightly wider footballs. I'm thinking of making one or two of the center treads slightly closer to the wall (that the balls roll up), so balls will corral there while footballs will go up the edges (kind of like the gripper things that 1114 had on their bot this year in a way). That or perhaps advanced tread flippers to hold balls.

Basically I wanna build real bad :/
I've always used zipties on the treads, which are probably easier to get ahold of than tread flippers, and longer (even if they fall of right and left).

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Originally Posted by Smoores View Post
what if you dropped a football in an opponent's triangle? that would block it, and that would be a score for you. Is that legal?




If so I have a perfect design.
Aren't the triangles your opponents are trying to score in on your side? I thought they were. If they are, than jamming footballs in them would give your opponents the football's points, not you.
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