One thing to note on the hanging tetras...

[copertop]

The Hanging tetras are worth one point if they just fall and land inside the bottom of the support struts. If you cap with tetra it is worth 3 points and can be used in a tic tac toe if it is the top most tetra. I think that everyone should go for knowcking down the tatras seeing as all you have to do is smack and walk away!

-J of D

[tkwetzel]

Originally Posted by Billfred

They're PVC pipes, yes. But the tetra-maker plates are held in place by nuts and bolts. They come loose, and the pipe it is attached to rotates.

Of course, you can retighten it (I fixed one with my fingers), but when you've got 80 of the darn things around the field, that may get a bit unwieldly.

On the actual field pieces, the end caps will be glued to the pipe, so it will not rotate. And the bolts should be installed with loctite, so there should be very little chance of them coming apart during a competition.

[shotgunking777]

Originally Posted by Billfred

I was looking at the field today, especially at the hanging tetras.

I'll tell you now, if you didn't figure it out already (and by looking at the topics thus far, it doesn't look like anyone has)...

• Putting a tetra on top will make it drop.
• Giving it any reasonable amount of force on the side will make it drop.
• A good whack to the goal about midways (like me hitting it with the palm of my hand with a bit of a grunt) will make it drop. (Note that you don't want to break the field, lest the thing that drops becomes your ranking.)

And one other thing about the tetras that may or may not be addressed soon...holding some of them, a loose nut in one piece of the pipe will cause that part to spin around. Know that if you're planning on building a one-pole grabber.

yeahh well u would need a lot of tork and you would need somthing like a claw machine. but a lot more force.

[Kyle]

here are some things that i have learned from the rules and might have been said here already.
1. knocking off a hanging tetra is one point if it stays int he goal the whole match.
2. capping a vision tetra put the bonus tetras on your side not the other and if you cap both vision tetras u get 4 bonus tetras on you side.
3. I thought the tetras that you score on are made of pipe not plastic pipe, even so the magnet is weak just smacking it with a little bit of force makes it drop very easily and hitting the sides also makes it drop no matter what the material is pipe or plastic.
at our meeting we were playing with tetras that one of our adult mentors put together with the magnet on it and it was able to fall easily.

If i am wrong on something some one please let me know so i wont sound stupid in another post

Good luck to everyone.

[Mark Pettit]

Originally Posted by Kyle

2. capping a vision tetra put the bonus tetras on your side not the other and if you cap both vision tetras u get 4 bonus tetras on you side.

Kyle,
You get one bonus tetra for each vision tetra placed on the outside middle goals. You get two bonus tetras for each vision tetra placed on the center middle goal.
This is all per rule 4.3.3, G10, and the accompanying diagram in the rulebook.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Mark Pettit

Kyle,
You get one bonus tetra for each vision tetra placed on the outside middle goals. You get two bonus tetras for each vision tetra placed on the center middle goal.
This is all per rule 4.3.3, G10, and the accompanying diagram in the rulebook.

yea thats what i ment, really its true, but i didnt say it the right way but thank you.

[supersy77]

I have a question about these hanging tetras. Are they any differnt then the normal field tetras. I mean do they have metal in them so they can hang and the other ones dont. Or do they all have metal in them so they can hang.
Steve

[Kyle]

the connectors on the tops of them all have metal on them so they can be hung, at least there is nothing in the book that says other wise. the only differences that are in the feild tetras and that is the vision and regular ones. the vision ones are 12.5 lbs and the regular are 8.5 also the vision ones have the green on them for the sensors

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Kyle

the connectors on the tops of them all have metal on them so they can be hung, at least there is nothing in the book that says other wise. the only differences that are in the feild tetras and that is the vision and regular ones. the vision ones are 12.5 lbs and the regular are 8.5 also the vision ones have the green on them for the sensors

The prints for the tetras show that the hanging ones have an extra bolt and several wide washers at the top for the magnet to capture.

[ldeffenb]

Originally Posted by Kyle

the connectors on the tops of them all have metal on them so they can be hung, at least there is nothing in the book that says other wise.

This is correct. At the kickoff, everyone was messing with various ways to drop the magnetic tetras. They *do* drop very easily. If you tap them, they fall. If you push them to the side, they fall. If you pull down on them, they fall. If you rap on the goal itself with about 5 times the force, they fall anyway!

If you had something that could knock the ball off of the Tee in First Frenzy, you've got something that will knock off the hanging tetra this year.