One of the kids discovered this today, quite by accident. You can hit the corner balls and they will jam tightly on the backside of the corner goals. This could have devastating consequences on robot design, game strategy, and overall goal of building/competing/etc as this sort of ‘shortcuts’ the an…

It seems like you just need more testing and tuning if that’s the case

he didnt push it as far u push till u hear a pop

[image] seeker: It seems like you just need more testing and tuning if that’s the case yeah it might be possible to consistently dislodge, but it also might not.

If you’re hearing a pop you are breaking the field right?

never mind the pop was the wall which i hadn’t secured field wall once i had i can now pull out the balls its difficult and a pain but its doable

Now you have to tune to get it out but it’s not impossible

under the assumption the goal is perfect ye so i guess its not a critical flaw its just a pain in the butt

In the webinar, Grant Cox just said that the ball getting stuck was a manufacturing error and that it will be fixed in the may update

The difference here is that the flags are flexible, but I am pretty sure the balls are not for this game. Edit//: Gosh dangit, discourse being a meme again. It brought me to the top of the thread and didnt load the other 200 posts so I assumed that this thread was posted early this week.

In the webinar today, Grant said that this issue will be addressed in the may 25th manual update. I guess we’ll know then.

Ball lockout - critical flaw in game design?

VEX V5 Robotics Competition

Dimension_360 May 25, 2020, 5:14pm 261

Well, I guess this strategy just went down the drain.