Rapid fuel feeding into shooter

[Brandon_L]

It seems we're all aiming for speed on our shooters, trying to max out balls per second, but I haven't seen a thread yet on how to feed these shooters at a matching rate. Just thought I'd open a discussion, as I think this has the possibility of being the most overlooked component this season. (This is sort of a compliment thread to Realistic high goal scoring rate)

We've seen the blender method used in some robot in 3 days videos, and it does work but it takes too much time to get the balls to the shooter in my opinion.

I'm a fan of the Zou Keeper single file line fed into the shooter, but this presents obvious space usage issues (limiting how many balls you can hold) and human loading issues

Perhaps some combination could work - A blender that lines the balls into a single file chute as you drive across the field so you have a stock of balls ready to go at the boiler, but you could only have so many balls ready to go and you're stuck again with the feed rate of the blender.

TL;DR How is everyone planning to get their fuel from a jumbled mess to the shooter in a timely fashion?