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Thumbs down Re: Throwing Totes

Throwing totes seems like a big safety hazard, given that:
1. It's unexpected; this year isn't a projectile game.
2. The totes are hard; past FRC projectiles have been soft to cushion impact
3. The totes are massive; about three times the weight of the Aerial Assist ball.
4. The totes have corners. They are not balls that are pretty much flat when they hit you.
5. There's no netting like in 2013 to prevent tote-alling something.

All of these mean that a flying tote is much more prone to damaging something than an Aerial Assist ball, and there were some incidents with those if memory serves correctly...

If I were a ref I'd be disabling a robot that is throwing totes based on this alone...
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