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Re: Minibot Ramp

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Originally Posted by gblake View Post
If I remember the rules correctly, any ramp or similar device is not allowed to have any effect on the minibot's speed.

Ramps or the deployment methods are only allowed to move the minibot into a legal "deployed" position.

From that deployed position the minibot has to climb without carrying any momentum or other assistance across the interface between the deployment process and the climbing process.

So (if I am right) I think your question is irrelevant?

Blake
As I understand it, the nature of the ramp would allow the minibot moving itself, to the pole, to be at the best speed possible when it actually climbs the pole unlike other deployments where the minibot sits there possibly on until it hits the pole. A car already in motion moves faster than a car that has to beat inertia and then go for example.

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