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Re: Upside down Frisbees; can your team get them out?

Our shooter is incompatible with upside-down discs. Our feeding mechanism, a shark fin shape actuated by a pneumatic cylinder, is designed to stay low and catch the bottom edge of discs that it feeds forward while also being able to slide backward when the next discs falls into place without snagging them. Unfortunately, its low profile means that it doesn't catch the rounded edge of upside-down discs and instead slides right under them.

After spending a season watching our offensive capabilities end during matches because of upside-down discs in our hopper we finally decided to add a flipper during IRI. We finished adding a 2 inch stroke pneumatic cylinder beneath our shooter with 2 matches to go. We inadvertently mounted the cylinder at a slight enough angle that it doesn't just push the discs up but, instead, flips them over.

We never used it during a match.
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