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Originally Posted by FrankJ
A good argument can be made that once you give up righting a tipped robot, disabling it is the safe thing to do. So E stopping a tipped over robot should not be against the rules. To my way of thinking, using the e stop should never be almost never penalized. Maybe the actions just prior can carry the heavy penalty to prevent a team from stopping a robot in a critical area. Or a team obviously using the estop solely for an competitive advantage.
Do not confuse my thoughts with official interpretation of the rules.
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(No offense is directed at you.) We got red-carded at Champs last year for E-Stopping our robot when we lost driver control and it started visibly deforming a lane divider. Don't E-Stop unless it's obvious and absolutely necessary.