[EricH]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Even if you store the energy in the system before the match ends. Say about...30 seconds before the match ends, the minibot uses its motors/battery to build potential energy. Then, after deployment, it's using its own electrical energy converted to mechanical energy in the form of potential energy to propel itself up the pole.

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- Sunny

You're storing energy before deployment.

<G19> MINIBOTS must remain completely autonomous and move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors (and associated, appropriate circuitry).
[bluebox]<G19> means that HOSTBOTS are not allowed to launch the MINIBOT up the pole at the TARGET, or otherwise contribute to the vertical movement of the MINIBOT. Energy for vertical movement may not be stored in the MINIBOT before DEPLOYMENT (except that which is contained within the battery and excluding incidental kinetic energy stored in the motors or wheels, but NOT, for example, in a flywheel).[/bluebox]

(emphasis mine)

You're storing non-incidental energy for vertical movement before deployment. Now, if you build it up after deployment, you should be OK; after all, you converted the electric energy to mechanical energy using the motors, then converted the mechanical energy into vertical motion.