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Flippers
By: Dutch Date: July 3, 2021, 8:55 pm
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Flippers
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Flippers or launchers are lifting weapons designed to flip other
bots over or launch them into the air. They are powered by
rubber bands or hand, though springs might work as well.
Successful flippers include champions Floppy
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/>and Hydra
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/>The first hand-powered flipper, Dutch's Haymaker
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/>managed to be the runner up once
Advantages
[list]
[li]Many bots cannot self-right or drive inverted, so flippers
can get easy KOs by overturning opponents
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[li]In arenas where OOTAs are possible, flippers can easily OOTA
opponents
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[li]Most bots' wheel systems will probably have broken after
multiple big flips.[/li]
[li]Hand-powered flippers are quite simple and easy to
make.[/li]
[li]Flippers can easily to incorporated into wedge designs.[/li]
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Disadvantages
[list]
[li]Flipper arms often break when launching very heavy or very
light things.[/li]
[li]Rubber-band flippers are usually fragile and weak.[/li]
[li]If a flipper cannot get under an opponent it has basically
no chance except ramming, and other designs usually are more
suited for that.[/li][/list]
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