Lights to help aim

[jijiglobe]

Originally Posted by jijiglobe

Fair warning, our team used a flashlight to aim our shot with incredible success throughout all of our qualifications matches, however, in Eliminations, our opponents said that our flashlight was distracting/blinding them during the match. We were forced to unplug the flashlight, significantly dropping our accuracy. Be careful about relying on a flashlight to aim, I highly recommend you have some sort of fallback solution.

Since a lot of people have been asking, I'm going to clarify that there was most likely an issue with our flashlight blinding drivers. I would never accuse them of lying about that. We were not the only team that was forced to unplug their flashlight though. After we received the complaint, the head ref asked all teams to shut down their flashlights.

For our second event, we will be working on ways to avoid the flashlight issue(such as pointing the beam at the bottom of the tower so it can't get people's eyes, as well as adding a dimming capability.

As for the people asking which light we used, we used a pocket flashlight that one of our team members bought at a hardware store, I don't remember what the part number was exactly, but it was about 6" long before we chopped off the battery compartment.