IN District - Tippecanoe Event 2016

[BoilerMentor]

Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung

We had a couple of shots (at least 3) go in the left side of the goal and come out the right side of the goal. We were surprised because our catapult isn't too powerful and we were pretty far back (outer works).

We had a few as well, with quite a bit more energy behind the shot. I can't explain it. I've re watched a number of times and I cant find a correlation. I was hoping it would be related to shooting position, looks like bad luck. It may be related to the split in the plastic behind the goal, but that's my only theory.

[Hgree56]

Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung

We had a couple of shots (at least 3) go in the left side of the goal and come out the right side of the goal. We were surprised because our catapult isn't too powerful and we were pretty far back (outer works).

During our prototyping and testing phase of build season, we had this happen multiple times. We figured out that if you line your shot up at the right (or in this case wrong) position, it'll fly through the other end. We found that simply angling your robot helps keep from missing.