Ramp Climbing Adventures

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Starke340

i think that the robots that can make it up the ramp will make it to the final of the regionals/championship. what teams can make it up the ramp? what do you have that enables your robot to do the ramp?

I've written this before on this forum... at the Bellevue pre-ship event, all of the robots at the event were 6WD and all could climb the ramp (although with one of the rookie 'bots it was kind of touch and go there for a while.) The six veterans could all easily climb the ramp, and the four best chassis could pretty much do it up or down, straight or diagonally. So, I'm trying to figure out what's so hard about it? (I do confess that fanatic attention to CG seems to be a PNW trait. Over the last two seasons I've seen pics of bots from other parts of the country that looked really tippy.) Wooden Thunder and Top Gun are pretty primitive compared to some of the big-bux teams, but they don't tip easily...