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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
The definition of triggered includes "the act of pushing the bottom disk of the TARGET" as a necessary condition. <G20-B> sees to it that only the minibot does the pushing.
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Well, if we're getting to that level of lawyering the rules, there's no official definition for PUSH in the rules. There's clearly a force being applied to the bottom disk in order to TRIGGER the sensors on the TOWER. In 7th grade I learned that a force was a PUSH or a PULL. So, by that logic, shoving the bottom of the tower should count. |
In your scenario, bumping the base causes the pole to move, and as the structure sways, the target's guide bolts exert a force on the bottom plate of the target. When the pole springs back, the momentum of the bottom plate trips the sensors. So yes,
something pushed on the bottom plate, and so the definition of triggered was satisfied.
But where's the minibot? Per <G67>, zero points are awarded, because
it wasn't a minibot pushing on the bottom plate that triggered the tower.
Even worse, because something else triggered the tower, the minibot race is over on that tower (per the definition), and no minibots can score. (<G20-B> supports this interpretation.)