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Re: IRI - 2015 Rule Modification Ideas?
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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
[*]Upside down totes - we haven't seen any robots work the upside down totes but it's possible we will it at champs. They are an interesting element to the game. Flipping them moves the landfill dimensions for pulling RCs from the step. So I vote leave the upside down totes.
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Completely agree. Having looked into the geometry of a "can burglar" system, the geometry is pretty tight for the common dual arm mechanism, and losing the 2 or 3 inches from flipping the upside down totes would throw off many teams.
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