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Re: Lifting mecanisms

Sounds reasonable.

I'd like to encourage teams this year to go back and look at the last two times there's been hanging: 2004 and 2000.

And, a tip from someone who built a robot to play the 2004 game, make sure that you can get your hook out of places you don't want it and then still hang, if you can. (Examples: the floor, another robot's lightening holes (actually happened once in 2004), the bar itself, the ball return, a tower pole...)
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