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Re: Assisting a Climb

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Originally Posted by aldaeron View Post
Like many others I am trying to guess at the intent of G33.

One thought is that you can have 1 alliance member drive up and touch the pyramid and a second get off the ground by driving on top of them and touching the pyramid (yay - 10 points!)

A second and IMO more interesting thought is whether you can piggy back another alliance member on top of your robot and carry both up at once (we can use 10 bajillion motors so it is feasible). The concern is whether or not the carried robot has to touch the pyramid on its way up. As the rules are written now, it appears the carried robot would have to touch the pyramid on its way up.

My guess is that you cannot get to the top and lower something down to hoist up an alliance mate.

Curious on your thoughts! I think it would be cool if they allowed carrying

-matto-
If I understood the rules correctly, the robot you carry up would have to touch each rung, as it must sequentially be in each zone, and you are only in a zone if you are touching part of the pyramid in said zone.
Edit: If you lower something down, then your robot is technically getting taller, and you could only lower it 84? inches from the top of your robot.
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