Floor pickup Vs. feeder station

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Originally Posted by MooreteP

Here is some video of two floor pickup systems.
Team 1493, The Falcons, had one of the most amusing systems.
Team 20, The Rocketeers, had one of the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EX_oYPh8kI

Is "amusing" good? Im going to assume that its a good thing. Yes it was not the most effective pick up method. We really wanted one just like 20 but we could not get it working great on carpet and we had an old vac setup from our ball control system for the soccer game. We were amazing how well it sucked up the pieces.

We were really happy with how it worked out. We never once had to go to the other side of the field and never could not find discs to pick up.Plus you get the added protection of the tower near you and so many teams are scared to go near you. Could we have done it faster and more effective...Yes.. But for a team that tends to struggle we feel like we nailed our game plan this year. Id say floor loading is the way to go. Good defense can slow down station loaders to easy. Unless you start seeing "lineman" style bots that set picks/blocks for teams to make it to the station.

Thank you for the video BTW