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Unread 08-01-2012, 20:49
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"assisted" balance

As teams balance on the alliance bridges, they (or at least their bumpers) will likely touch the side wall. I would not expect this to disqualify a team from being "balanced" but then it brings up the slippery slope question. How much contact is legal? would <G10> prevent you from, for example, attaching a suction cup to the court wall and using a piston to lift yourself vertical?

This example is probably illegal, qualifying as "attaching" to an arena structure, but what about something that just presses against the wall, like a pneumatic piston with racquetball-type-material on the end? It would be easy to stick this into the wall while the platform was tipping and with timing, sticking yourself at horizontal.