Discs as the game piece this year presents some very interesting challenges along with varied approaches to the game. One concern my team (Force Team 1073) has is that with the potential for 118 discs to be on the field at any one time it is more than likely that a few of these discs will be run over by robots. So we started to test the effects of robots driving on discs. We started off by running over a disc with our 120lb mecanum robot affectionately named Libra. There was a slight warp but still flew fine. We then proceeded to run our 6 wheel drive robot named ELOT over the disc. Same story, slight warping but still flew fine. So if 2 robots did little damage, what would warp these discs? Logically we tried running it over with an SUV....twice. Still little to no warping and flew only with a very slight wobble. Needless to say we aren't too concerned with robots damaging these discs this year.
Maybe if we get lucky [the GDC] will just say chute door. - IronicDeadBird [more] 
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