Kicker power restrictions

[david]

@stiebel

Open: a “bouncing rule” heavily depends on the ball !
We dropped balls to the floor and saw re-bouncing results form 30% height to 80% height depending on the ball. So if we use a “bouncing rule” we need to have a worldwide accessible golf ball for training.

That is indeed a lot of variability and would require to have large power reserves in case the ball was less bouncy which would not necessarily be a problem but it would also change gameplay significantly depending on what ball is used.

@stiebel

What about a ramp, but not in front of the robot but to be placed in the opponents goal.
This would have to have a plain and wide ramp side, but you could provide the pcb files for such a ramp and every team could get their ramps build by pcb-board manufactures for less then 10$ each.
Using a thinner material (like 1mm instead of 1.6) and a less steep angle this could be a good possibility in my opinion.

In conjunction with the field enlargement the part of the rear side ramp that gets removed to place the goal could be cut down to fit inside the goal and serve this purpose. The question would then become if that is enough kicker power to make the kick more widely used.

That is where any teams that could provide a video of what a kick that distance looks like would be super valuable.