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Re: Robot Lifting

Does anyone have any alternate ideas that are really compact?

Also, I'd just like to point out that (1) you only really need to extend a little over thirty inches during the finale, cutting time considerably if you can extend to about sixty inches beforehand.

And (2), anytime you touch the tower during the match you can extend to finale proportions. That way a slower lifter could get up ten or fifteen seconds before the twenty second finale and still score. If you're planning on lifting other robots as well, this would give much needed extra time, especially if the first robot could get to the top just as the finale period began.

Thanks for any ideas.
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