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Originally Posted by Zach O
I disagree, and I think that the BIGGEST problem with fulfilling this goal is that we weren't aligned with two hangers. I think we had a very high chance of it happening at the MSC, but at most we only had one other hanger on our alliance. Wether or not we'll see it at Atlanta, I can't be sure.
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That's what I mean. If more teams were geared towards the endgame, it would have happened much more often that we would have been allied with two other teams capable of hanging from the horizontal tower bars. Since most teams focus on scoring/moving balls in between the zones, a great number of them have chosen to focus on their ball-movement systems and have either added a lifter as an afterthought or have not added one at all. Like I said, this isn't the case 100% of the time, but from what we've seen, I'm going to use the generalized statement, even if I will concede that it is not even close to always the case.
This is the very reason we haven't seen more suspensions, and haven't seen a single double-suspension. Apart from the inherent difficulty involved with suspending in general, there are relatively few robots with the capability to do it.