Shooter vs Dumper Trade Study

[Swampdude]

After the no descoring rule change (design #1 scrapped), we went to a full up turret style shooter design, basically done and we all loved it. But ditched the idea after seeing all the easily broken balls (design #2 scrapped). If you think about it, each regional only has so many, and over 120 are in play each match, as the matches go on and on these balls will start coming apart and by late saturday you may be dealing with a lot of jamming. I know they won't be inspecting 120 balls between matches. It just takes 1 to jam up and end your match. Also its true a dumper needs to handle the balls also, but not nearly in such a precise way. A shooter seems risky to me, but I'm sure many will do very well with it. I can see how a shooter has the advantage if done top notch, but only within a few feet of a moving goal. I don't think pinning a trailer for a couple seconds will be that hard with a good drive system.