Just because I enjoy publicly displaying my cluelessness, I've seen references to the use of "filecards" before, yet don't know how they were employed to gain traction. Care to enlighten the clueless?

-Kevin

Multiplier stacks
 

"•Multiplier stacks must have a continuous chain of contact through a set of
containers from the Scoring Zone (stack starts with a container touching the carpet
in the Scoring Zone) to the highest point on the stack (e.g., stacks supported
EXCLUSIVELY by an opponent robot, in which there is no direct contact
between the stack and the Scoring Zone, are ineligible to be the multiplier stack –
any containers in such a stack are only included in the base score, as identified in
Rule SC8)."

So.....no longer can your opponent go onto your side and just life 1 box 11 SHU's and get the multiplier...??? yahoo!!!! no more invisible boxes

Beatty (Team 71, Team Hammond) used filecards on their robot to prevent it from being pushed backwards. They were on a walker device, and interacted with the carpet in such a way that they could not be pushed backwards. I don't know much about the actual filecards themselves, but I do know that's how they were used.

Well the whole negitive number thing from #3 now doesn't seem too harsh. Now robots will need to take over an existing stack, and can't just hold one over the scoreing area.