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Re: Blocking a robot driving clock-wise

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Originally Posted by Scott358 (Post 705924)

As you stated, those with arms that extend over the overpass have hopefully figured this out already. We were concerned enough that we completely redesigned our arm/thrower in the last couple weeks prior to ship date!!!

On my team, we figured we might want a little extra speed when hurdling from the get-go. I'm not sure if we can currently do what we need to do to get that speed/escape, but we've got other methods, and it's a quick fix if we need to.

Re: Blocking a robot driving clock-wise

As Answered by GDC

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We've come up with a scenario where we place a Trackball on the Overpass and when we go to back up [to retract our arm/gripper mechanism], another robot blocks our path to back up [They haven't even touched us, they're just preventing us from backing up to retract the Arm/gripper and resume playing the game]. Would that warrant a penalty like when a robot rolls over top of our mechanism to impede us [3 seconds to get off] or be perfectly legal?

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#2 01-28-2008, 03:30 PM
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Re: Blocking

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There is no rule that would prohibit the blocking robot's action. There are also no rules that would prohibit an appropriate counter measure by your robot. This scenario would likely become a pushing match.