[ChuckDickerson]

What if the cylinder was only connected at one end and allowed to vent to atmosphere on the other end? Would this be illegal? I hope not else our last year's robot was illegal and we didn't know it. Our main kicker cylinder was only presurized on one side.

This really doesn't make sense to me either. I was actually thinking about using an unconnected cylinder with an adjustable flow control valve to dampen our minibot deployment mechanism so it doesn't slam into the pole so hard if needed. I guess this Q&A ruling makes that illegal. Back to the drawing board...