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Originally Posted by sanddrag
My prediction is that this is a robot piece, that will be included in every kit, and that JVN oversaw the manufacturing of  . It will be mounted high on the robot, and hangars (not pictuered) will be affixed to the pipes on either side. As in last year, the goal is the opponent robot. You will have to hook rings over these hangars (much like 07). At the end of the match, the quick release pins permit quick removal of the rings from the robots, and installation of the hangars onto the next teams' robots. There will be two special color rings that if a robot gets hooked with, voids the tally of the rings it is holding.
Oh, and bumpers will be mandatory, and the floor may not be carpet.
That's what I gather from this. |
Originally I was convinced it was a track for a ball in particularly a soccer ball or ball of similar size. The difference in tube thickness got me thinking. Perhaps the distance between the nob and the big pipe is the perfect distance for X rings. I think this guy is on to something. If you look close at the pins coming out near the ends they have smaller pins which would lock them into place. Perhaps they are NOT spring loaded but they hold rings from falling off kinda like that annoying black plastic thing in 07. I do not think they are on the robot because it would be red or blue colored. I think the lexan mounts with the lexan on the driver station wall. Human players probably wouldn't throw rings so they might feed them onto the robot some how. Anyone good at ring toss?