what was the best shooting mechanism for 2016?

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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

The best shooting mechanism was the optimized one. Whether it had wheels, or a catapult wasn't the point.

I have seen extremely successful wheeled shooters and catapults as well as extremely unsuccessful wheeled and catapults.

Its all in the execution.

Definitely agree with this. It is all in the optimization and execution...

Originally Posted by TechWaffle

This is just guessing, but the catapult could probably be unreliable sometimes if the springs got stretched out.

Team 230 built a catapult... and we had the 2nd highest OPR at the Championship event. Our catapult was highly optimized (as noted in this post: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=47) ... and it did not suffer from any kind of reliability issues to to springs stretching out, because there were no springs. It is a fully electric catapult, driven by 2 mini-CIMs. The best part about the catapult was that the boulders that were being damaged by the wheeled shooters were not an issue for us as the catapult is unaffected by the size and shape variations.