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Originally Posted by animenerdjohn
Because Q&A cant answer questions about design....
Also If our robot were to drive on their ramp(opposing alliances), who gets the penalty? The rationale for us getting is would give them the penalty under the wedge rule...
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The team climbing them would get the penalty. "The wedge rule", [G26] only penalizes strategies aimed at destruction and tipping other robots. The example giving is flipping another robot. It's hard to argue that 179's ramp is designed or being used strategically to intentionally flip another robot, when they're sitting stationary. The key here is the rule does not prohibit wedges, like has sometimes been the case in previous years. The rule only penalizes strategic decisions which result in the tipping of another robot. I feel that any reasonably astute observer would not identify 179 as attempting to tip another robot as their strategy. It's quite clearly the opposite.
[G27], as I mentioned earlier in the thread, assesses a penalty to any robot which deliberately contacts an opponent on or inside the frame perimeter. Since driving up and over 179 is clearly deliberate and definitely inside the frame perimeter, it seems that the penalty would be given to their opponent attempting to climb their ramp.
This is all of course my own opinion on how the rules should be interpreted in this scenario. Refs may call it differently.