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We had a tracked robot and as a result we didn't need very much ground clearance (only slightly more than an inch), we had a polycarb bellypan, which was fine the whole season, our wooden version of the rough terrain though is a different story. I (the driver) tore some of the blocks off the rough terrain.

In competition at Rocket City one robot attempting the drawbridge managed to start peeling the sticker off the bridge part as they pushed it down. No real damage as it just got stuck back on, but certainly interesting.

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So, for purposes of shooting and being defended... did they complete a crossing?

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My guess it would be a field fault.

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I think it counts as crossed. The robot ends fully contained by the opponent's courtyard. Nothing says it has to end completely free of contact with the DEFENSE.

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It does count as a crossing but thanks to the rock wall coming out of the outer works it is a field fault

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Our base driver had a love/hate relationship with the Sally Port this year. It was damaged in a number of matches and the field crew gave the team some pieces as a trophy (notably a gas shock and a piece of the frame itself).

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The defenses at the Suffield Shakedown were all wood and were beat HARD. I saw ramparts become a ramp. Drawbridges and portcullises becoming open doorways and overall some pretty badly beaten field elements.

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I didn't say it wasn't a field fault, I just answered Andrew's question.

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Yup, that's the one I was remembering!

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I believe it was at the Chesapeake District Championship (home of the dramatic e-stop malfunction) where someone attempted to cross the ramparts at high speed and sent them flying across the field.

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It would. But Alex got the point of the question - Playing the game of "not a field fault" would this constitute a valid cross. It was an exercise in rule reading for folks.

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Worst I've seen was actually our team, at the Lakeview competition (Week 2). We were crossing the moat, got stuck 3 wheels in, and our clamping gearbox was bashing into the moat beam repeatedly. I was in the spy box when I saw our entire axle assembly fall apart, and I didn't know if the drivers knew. I was signaling wildly to stop, because they kept moving. Later in that match, our alliance tried helping us to the batter without letting us know, so we took a lot of damage in the impact then. The worst part is that we were queued right away. We lost that match with a grand total of zero boulders scored, but managed to get 3 RP in the next match after running across the massive high school to the machine shop. Unfortunately TBA has videos of all our matches except that one.

Edit: I misread the post. I thought it was the worst damage done by a defense to a robot, not the opposite.

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Your misreading was a misread. Damage goes both ways in this thread.

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Lol thanks Eric.

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I may of broken a cheval in every district event I went to. It wasn't on purpose, they were just . . . there. Sorry First.