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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
I thought they did it for the safety of the volunteers, staff and teams.
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With the amount of energy safely stored in our lift system last year we could put a minibot through the roof of whatever arena we were in (3x 250lbs gas shocks 16" stroke) but we wouldn't for the reason of the light has to be on the tower to indicate we won.
Soccer balls flying would also have similar kinetic energy safety wise.
'08 trackballs flying had significantly more and could easily knock people over, and those exited the field occasionally.
Doing a launched minibot safely was not a large challenge.
It definitely looked like a penalty, but in FRC if it looks like a penalty and smells like a penalty, well, unfortunately it might not be. - Basel A [more] 
01-11-2011, 11:33 PM
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