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Re: Legality of Downwards-Sloping Ramps

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Originally Posted by gblake View Post
If you can't spin up a flywheel during deployment and carry that angular momentum into the race, I don't see why you should be allowed to drive down a hill and carry that angular and linear momentum into the race.
Blake
Who said you can't use a fly wheel. Provided that the energy stored was generated by A) tetrix motors on the minibot or B) a change in position of a mass that is part of the minibot, or the entire minibot, as a result of gravity only (it is ridiculous to say that you can't use gravity on your minibot to gain an advantage, then making your minibot lighter would be declared illegal as well) then a flywheel would be perfectly legal from what I can tell.
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