Making a scale stack

[maxnz]

My friend (from marketing) just had the genius idea that if you could have all three robots stacked on top of each other at the end of the match, the bottom one fully supported by the batter, and the top one with its bumpers above the goals and also touching the rung in some way, you would get a scale.

I checked the rules, and from what I can determine, it would count as a single scale. Of course, you wouldn't be able to capture, because the two supporting robots aren't on unique sides of the batter, but you would still get the points from the one scale.

Also, the two supporting robots would have to be designed to hold 240 or 120 lbs, depending on which one is on the bottom.

I want to hear what you think. Is it legal? Is it worth attempting?

I think that it would be fun to try to do at an offseason event, but not worth trying at an official competition.

[pilleya]

It would not be worth it. With the weight you use to build the ramp or strengthen the robot to take the weight you could easily build a reliable and fast scaling mechanism. Also you'd lose points over just having the three robots just sitting on the batter

[EmileH]

The ruling of a capture is such that each of the three robots must be challenging a separate face of the tower, thus this solution would NOT be a capture, just like parking on the batter under a scaled robot would not count as a capture for that lower robot.

tl;dr - it's not a capture, and IMO, not worth it because you'd get more points from just capturing as opposed to a single scale.

[OccamzRazor]

It is certainly not worth it and this thread says why. It cost us a match and lucky for the alliance our only defeat of the eliminations and we still managed to squeak out a win at state championships:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/43709?