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Re: Minibot Falling Solutions

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Originally Posted by jhellr13 View Post
What do you think now that memory foam is not allowed?
Memory foam was never on the allowed materials list for the Minibot. However, it's not on the disallowed materials list for the Hostbot.

I had an idea: If the robot's arm just so happened to be up at the end of the match, just so happened to be about 10' tall, and just so happened to have a device at a shoulder joint that would allow any claws to be operated by hand without robot power being turned on, I don't think the refs can use the "special equipment" rule to disallow that being used to bring the Minibot down. It's part of the Robot, after all...
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