Scaling the Tower

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Is everyone just doing the hanging mechanism as the last thing on the priority list?

That's an interesting question. I think it's the lowest item on the priority list that we've been actively working on, but that doesn't mean we don't plan to have it complete by bag day. Rather that other items, like drive train, electronics, and boulder manipulations are considered more critical/important to accomplish. Hanging is great, but it's just the last 20 seconds of the match. If all you can do is hang, then your use the rest of the match may be questionable. Instead, if you can take care of defenses or boulders, you can be useful the entire match, even if you can't hang. So, by necessity hanging becomes lower priority.

There are other items that are even lower than hanging on our priority list. For example, while we plan to be able to do several of the defensive groups ourselves, we probably won't be able to do all of them. Space, weight, and time constraints all are considerations. But, they are still on the list, just low enough down that they aren't being actively worked on, and likely won't be.