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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

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I feel that FIRST could have done a much better job with this, (yes its a design challenge and all..). But I feel that the chains should be replaced with a mesh type material, I saw a practice scrimmage which used this and worked beautifully. I haven't seen the game in person yet, But from all the video shots and web casts that I have watched there are a good percentage of the balls bouncing out. It is already tough enough to score in the center with all the defense being played, and having 30+% of your balls bounce out just makes it that much unnecessarily harder. I hope FIRST deals with this problem before there are too many people complaining.
Alternately, perhaps a whole bunch of people might hold off on complaining until they actually go back, read the rules, re-examine the field drawings, build a goal, build a robot, practice the shots, and understand that this has been a part of the whole challenge since the very day that the game was announced. Nothing has changed, nothing is different. Perhaps those that are just chomping at the bit to complain might realize that a whole lot of teams figured out that controlling backspin, controlling the azimuth angle of the shot, and controlling the elevation of the shot are all factors in minimizing the probability of the ball bouncing back out, and they were able to do something about it. This is not an issue that FIRST has created, it is something that a few teams failed to recognize as part of the problem. So perhaps those that are so eager to complain might realize that if they spent a little less time complaining and a little more time analyzing the problem and developing solutions, then they might have a little less to complain about.

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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

In our entire day of playing, we only had three or four shots bounce out. I'd propose that those of you who are having 50% bounce out should shoot a bit slower or tone down the spin a bit... we're right at the 12m/s line and have a great deal of spin on the balls. If that's what's causing it, you might be a bit too far on either one of those two things. Then again, maybe it's something else...
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

In the first weeks I was convinced that back spin would be best. After our shooter proto type was finished, the students spent hours testing it and came to the conclusion that top spin was best. The magic angle works with top spin but, not with back spin. And the balls seem to stay in with top spin. It's that poofy ball dynamics thing. They just will not behave the way you want them to.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

If you are playing foozball and your ball bounces back out of the goal, do you expect the table's manufacturer to fix it? No - you groan and keep playing! Nothing's different here. Like Dave said, it's part of the challenge of playing the game.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

More and more I'm becoming a big Dave fan CD won't let me give him any more rep points though, lol. Back on topic, Dave is absolutely right. Getting upset because you didn't fully understand the challenge of making 3-pt goals isn't going to help your team solve the problem. Our little tiny team quickly realized that there were many variables inherent in scoring high that we probably would not be able to overcome. Shooting the balls in the right direction is the LEAST difficult part of the problem. The downward angled goal looks enticingly easy to score in. As it turns out, it makes it a little easier for the balls to come back out. We opted to concentrate on shooting low, the logic being that we could make 4 1 pointers faster than 1 3 pointer. I have a lot of admiration for the teams shooting high. Just keep working the problem. Those chains are probably staying there so figure out how to make the balls stay in and quit wasting time shaking your fist at them. Reduce shooter speed, change ball spin (really at 12m/s spin doesn't have much effect on trajectory, but with high friction poof balls, spin seems to have a large effect on surface interaction), anyone thought of side spin?, change trajectory, do something to score more reliably! But please wait until after your match against our alliance to fix it!
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

Let's look at it as a goal. The chains are the goalie. This goalie is not very good but sometimes you shoot at him/her and the ball is returned to the field. That's the way it goes when playing games. As has been stated earlier, FIRST did tell us about the chains and told us about the scoring procedure.

This may not be the correct place, BUT, my feeling is that FIRST did a great job on this years game, rules and consistency and they should be applauded for it.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

When we were setting the field up in NJ and tested the goals we found that if you put the right spin on the ball and hit the chain just right, the ball would ride the chain down, catch in the loop at the bottom and hook right out of the goal. Pretty neat. Not easy to repeat, though.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

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When we were setting the field up in NJ and tested the goals we found that if you put the right spin on the ball and hit the chain just right, the ball would ride the chain down, catch in the loop at the bottom and hook right out of the goal. Pretty neat. Not easy to repeat, though.
Not so hard at all. About a third of our clean hits did (more or less) that. It sure changes the calculus away from backspin shooters.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

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Not so hard at all. About a third of our clean hits did (more or less) that.
Guess I should've figured: repeatability is one of the hallmarks of good automation.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

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Alternately, perhaps a whole bunch of people might hold off on complaining until they actually go back, read the rules, re-examine the field drawings, build a goal, build a robot, practice the shots, and understand that this has been a part of the whole challenge since the very day that the game was announced. Nothing has changed, nothing is different.
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David -
a point of clarification is in order.
The center goal chain drawing was added as New 1-31-06 to the FIRST website for low cost field

I do not recall seeing chains on the field pieces at the kickoff at Kettering University on the very day the game was announced, it was a low cost field element - but then again as every year I am overwhelmed on that Saturday with all that is going on.

Just for clarity sake - we do build alot of the field elements and frankly we totally missed the chains - but, thats our fault and we will figure out how to deal with it by adjusting the way we shoot the balls so that we limit how many bounce out.

I was concerned in another similar thread to this one that the chains could be installed such that they were closer to the opening than designed - as the chain frame is not symetrical according to the drawing for the low cost field. Where as, the official field drawings for the chain installation added 2/9 this year, make it appear to be symmetrical - so I don't know what to think - is the Low cost field drawing for the chain frame correct? I'd like to hang the chains and want them in the same place as the official field elements.

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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

the chains were on the Manchester Kickoff field and were visible during the webcast, if i remember correctly.
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

The chains were most definitely in place at Kickoff in Manchester. Here's the proof these pictures have been up on our website since the day after Kickoff.

By the way, has anyone considered that these chains are another way to ensure that robots aren't shooting "hot" (faster than allowed)? The chains act as energy dampers to dissipate the balls energy, but if the ball is traveling too fast it will bounce back off the chains. In the web cast from VCU it sure looked like there were a few robots shooting too fast and they paid the price. There was a lot of traffic earlier on how FIRST would enforce the speed limits. By having clearly defined limits on shooting speed, do you really think that enforcing it was overlooked?

You should know by now that the games are designed very carefully and EVERY detail is probably well thought out and for a reason. What looks like an easy game or task may very well have some difficult problems to overcome.

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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

Good - the chains were definately on the centergoal at the Kickoff in Manchester. That was built just as an official one was meant to be built.
No one is disagreeing with that.

Yes - I agree that the chains are there to deter balls from flying straight into the goal - hitting the screen and bouncing back out. I also witnessed the same thing at the VCU webcast as far as ball velocity (too fast). Someone in the other thread similar to this one mentioned that balls shot too slow also bounced back out - so it is obvious that a number of factors may cause the balls to bounce back out.

Yes - this is something that everyone should have considered as part of the challenge. Just as lighting conditions and the use of the camera in poorly lit venues were, last year.

"Everything" can be said is part of the challenge - everything that you can think of that is.

So, if I have this right, the chains are the conditions for entry into the goal that needs to be considered along with the aximum 12m/s exit velocity - which is primarily for safety purposes.
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