Throwing the ringers.

[Taiku]

Are players allowed to throw the rings over the wall and attempt to land it on the rack? (not that we are going to make that our real strategy! More like when the time is running low and we have extra ringers.)

[karlcswanson]

yes

[Ericgehrken]

It doesn't say they can't, but it is going to be difficult to throw a tube over and 8' wall and get in on a spider which is 19' away. Plus there's the plate that the tube needs to get past.

[1086VEX]

Originally Posted by firstbots195

It doesn't say they can't, but it is going to be difficult to throw a tube over and 8' wall and get in on a spider which is 19' away. Plus there's the plate that the tube needs to get past.

its actually a 6.5 foot wall, and a person on our team did it while we were prototyping!!

~AleX~

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by 1086VEX

its actually a 6.5 foot wall, and a person on our team did it while we were prototyping!!

~AleX~

Our team did it while playing around on a full size rack.

[JYang]

Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

Our team did it while playing around on a full size rack.

Has anyone been able to score the ringers continuously? And how accurate are they?

[joshsmithers]

If someone does get good at this strategy, it seems kind of reasonable.(to a certain point in game strategy)

The HP could at least try to score the ringers at the end, however. It's better than throwing your arms in the air and giving up.

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by JYang

Has anyone been able to score the ringers continuously? And how accurate are they?

They were just playing around at the time and were surprised they could do it at all. We will look into it seriously as soon as we get our permanent location.

The rings are unstable, but a very talented person might be able to do something, we most likely will not be using it as a strategy, but use it throwing it to the robot for sure.

[BandChick]

I agree with Neil, while it IS possible, it's going to be extremely hard to have the accuracy necessary to make this a worthwhile strategy. Fun, sure, but I wouldn't depend on it.

Keep in mind, it's a LOT easier to throw a ringer on a stationary rack, but once robots have come into contact with it, it's going to be swinging and swaying, thus, making targetting for your HP a LOT harder.

[cam1031]

honestly throwing the ringers in my mind is a ridiculus idea there is just too many variables:
-inflation of ringers
-air current in arena
-movement of rack
-the little rubber stopper on top of the circle

and the accuracy of the robot would have to be exact to get it on

[Priyadarshy]

today we a few people from our team spent about 2 hours throwing ringers over a wall all the way to rack we were actually very successful in getting them on the rack, if the ringer is thrown right it kinda falls into place

now this wont be our main strategy but it could be awesome when we get to the end of the round, also human players seem important to the games last year our human player made 20 balls in to the corner goal it was amazing, maybe we can score a bunch of points with these ringers

[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by cam1031

honestly throwing the ringers in my mind is a ridiculus idea there is just too many variables:
-inflation of ringers
-air current in arena
-movement of rack
-the little rubber stopper on top of the circle

and the accuracy of the robot would have to be exact to get it on

Doesn't stop proffesional athletes from performing similar feats. Now granted this is a little less intuitive than say throwing a baseball but practice can make perfect. We were albe to do ok with 15 mph gusts of wind in an outside environment. In this type of scenario you could practice and probably get pretty good at doing it. 2 or 3 out of 9 in the shorter amount of time to do it wouldn't be a bad deal at all.

Edit: Also in rereading your post I think your confused as to what we are talking about, we are talking about the human player throwing them not the robots.

[Choi9111]

haha weve been practicing throwing the tubes...were not very good yet but we can do it with some practice!

[Priyadarshy]

our human player is throwing them on at will he said he will be hitting the gym because he is ~5 foot 6 and the wall is 6.5feet high (he is gonna try to jump higher) haha he jumps up and flicks it and makes it ill try and post a video tomorrow

[Agent 108]

Heck yeah! No rules about it, so go for it!