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Originally Posted by eagle33199
Throughout the entire elimination matches that afternoon, that tower worked every time it was used - as far as I could tell, there was no history that would make that tower suspect.
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Originally Posted by Lynsey93
Their mini bot actually hit so hard that it broke.
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As far as I know, over the course of the entire competition, only one team had difficulty triggering the tower (until the last match) when they were reaching the top of the tower. However, they had a design flaw that caused it to hit the bolts holding the bottom plate on occasion.
I do not know what caused the tower not to trigger (maybe a video will see it, though I doubt the webstream video will see it with enough resolution, but maybe I will be surprised), but as per team update 18, the refs are not to overrule the results.
You can see the discussion on here regarding team update 18 to see there has been worry about something like this happening (particularly on Einstein).
*Edit: Let me just state that it absolutely sucks that this happened in the eliminations and particularly in the third match of the finals.
As to why it broke, there are lots of possibilities. It could have hit a bolt (with no give), fall damage, damage over time, etc.