Low Bar Flaps Removed at Alamo Regional

[lmhi]

The new Low Bar flaps at the Alamo Regional were removed today partway through Qualification matches, due to flap damage and entanglement with robots.

I wonder if this week's other events will have their Low Bar flaps removed now as well?

[Kevin Sevcik]

<Marvin the Martian>Well, back to the drawing board...</Marvin>

[Irwin772]

At GTR East they gorilla taped them after they began to tear again, seems to be holding up so far and not affecting any teams. Duct tape fixes everything.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Irwin772

At GTR East they gorilla taped them after they began to tear again, seems to be holding up so far and not affecting any teams. Duct tape fixes everything.

GTRE is still running the old low bar flaps.

[Nick Lawrence]

We're still using the new low bar flaps at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional, no significant damage has occurred to them.

An interesting thing; it's pretty easy to bowl a boulder into it and have it stay on the Low Bar Defense. The boulders don't pass through, but the new flaps seem to be able to hold boulders better than they can bounce them back into the Neutral Zone.

-Nick

[dodar]

The Low Bar flaps at Orlando never seemed to really take any damage.

[gorrilla]

4639 is at alamo right now. I think they removed them because we put a tear in them during practice yesterday and another robot ripped them in half. That was just one side so idk why they removed both. I didnt hear an official announcement.

[cpapplefamily]

Hopping for a single acrylic flap.

[New Lightning]

St. Louis is using the new flaps and we haven't had any real problems to my knowledge.

[EricH]

New flaps at L.A. are holding up.

[Pratik Kunapuli]

New flaps at Columbus event in Peachtree District have no noticeable damage or entanglement issues with robots.

[LlNUX]

Mexico low bar has been taped out of that it hasn't receive any huge damages.

[GaryVoshol]

The Medieval Car Wash (thanks Joel) at Kettering #2 is holding up well. I saw a flap flip over the top bar once, so there was a partial opening for the rest of the match. One of them has a piece of black tape on the portion that loops over the bar, so there must have been a small hole that they patched. The zip ties around the bar that act as spacers slide sometimes, so the gaps get a bit wider and narrower, but field reset repositions them for the next match. I haven't seen any robots having problems with them.

[AllenGregoryIV]

The new Low Bar flaps were not installed on Friday at Alamo, they were still using the orgional flaps until they had to be removed. They didn't get the shipment in time to have them installed on Friday morning. The new flaps were installed last night and will be used today.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

We're still using the new low bar flaps at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional, no significant damage has occurred to them.

An interesting thing; it's pretty easy to bowl a boulder into it and have it stay on the Low Bar Defense. The boulders don't pass through, but the new flaps seem to be able to hold boulders better than they can bounce them back into the Neutral Zone.

-Nick

No mahor damage at KC thus far, but they seem to have a tendency to bunch up / ride the zip ties on the bar.
The boulders also sometimes get stuck in the low bar flaps if you bowl hard enough, and it makes judging HP intent when they roll a second boulder rather difficult...