[AllenGregoryIV]

I really like this idea though I am concerned as well about the Velcro not pulling away from the mnibot if the robot is too powerful.

What if we changed the design so the minibot had to pull away from the hostbot (by climbing the pole) instead of the hostbot pulling away form the minibot. In this way it is up to the minibot design to pull away from the deployment platform. The hostbot only retracts the deployment platform when the minibot has started climbing.

Also I would like to see a simple sample deployment mechanism built out of kit or easy to find parts for rookies teams to build or even to be built at a competition and added to a robot easily.