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Re: Release of tetra at match end by referee.

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Originally Posted by Leav
well, since our regional will only have 4 games (12 teams), i think we'll have plenty of time

i'll talk to the coordinator though.... just to get the final ok...

thanks guys!
-Leav
Either that or you will have lots of matches with each team!

One solution we have used in the past to avoid touching the ramp, touching a ball at the end,etc is to have the program automatically retract the potentially offending subsytem just before the end of the match. This happens despite the operator's best efforts to prevent it.

It really works well with pnuematics as you could program the valve to cycle at say 2:14:30 in the match. The system takes care of the rest. Since it takes a little bit of time for the air to redistribute itself, the actual motion may occur after the buzzer sounds. It was really handy in 03. Though back then the program didn't have timers built in and I think we did it with counting program cycles. So we timed it to go a little early.

In this case it could result in a premature drop of a tetra you were about to score. But you might do better to just hold the tetra over the goal and allow the pre-programmed release. The tetra could just fall into place and you don't have to worry about being in contact with it.

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