Falling off the bar... :\

[Aignam]

Originally Posted by Solace

I don't think that there will be a large amount of ramming robots already attached to the bar. There isn't a whole lot of room on that top platform, so another robot wouldn't have enough space to accelerate to any partivularly high velocity before impact one that is already hanging.

The ingenuity of FIRST-ers ceases to surprise very few. We're capable of it. ::shrugs:: It's just another challenge.

[Dave Hurt]

Eh, if I can remember from 2000, there were only a few times a robot actually fell off the bar. I was personally involved in one such incident, we had a hook and winch to pull our robot on the bar. Another machine was already on the bar, and we hooked on right next to them. In the process of pulling ourselves up, we got underneith them and lifted them clean off the bar. Their machine was built like a tank though, and didn't suffer any damages that I knew of.

As for what happens on the bar... it's the same thing as first has said about most of the previous competitions. You try to get up there, anything can happen. They said the same thing in 99 with the platform, and in 2000 with the bar.

[Swampmonkey]

I know this is a very old thread...but after attending the central florida regionals, I have to say that there wasn't much problem with falling off the bar, At one point, all 4 robots even got up on the bar at the same time! There's only one team I can think of that fell completely off the bar, and then there are some that backtracked at the end, and, of course, a LOT of bots flipping over in other places. :\

So teams that are still worrying about hanging or getting up on the platform (some aren't even attempting it because of the danger), at the Cetnral Florida Regionals, there wasn't too much of a problem with falling off the bar.