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Originally Posted by AhAhPatel
I see what you are saying, but your vision and our team's vision was different. I believe what you are thinking of is like a monkey climbing up on the inside, which yes, i agree would be rather dangerous. (correct me if i am wrong). however, our team was thinking of having some sort of pnumatic driven arm which would extend up and out at the second level and pull our robot up. that way if we could pull that off, the robot would still be in driving position, and if it did fall, it would (hopefully) fall straight back on the tires. I mean, regardless of how we go about climbing this pyramid, it is going to be risky business...
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I may be misreading what you write, but there are a couple of issues that I see. One, climbing has to be sequential and you can only touch two consecutive/contiguous levels at the same time. So you can touch 0 and 1, 1 and 2, 2 and 3, but not 0 and 2, which is (in my reading) what your team seems to be saying. Correct me if I'm wrong, absolutely, but yeah, it appears that you would be violating the rules by going directly to the second level.
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Originally Posted by Game Manual Page 28
A ROBOT has CLIMBED its PYRAMID if it contacts the PYRAMID in
A. sequential order (Level 0, 1, 2, 3) during ascent and B. no more than two (2) Levels simultaneously.
If a CLIMB is considered unacceptable (e.g. a ROBOT has touched non-adjacent Levels or more than two (2) Levels at a time), a Referee will indicate a rejected CLIMB by turning the offending ROBOT’S PLAYER STATION LED strings yellow. The ROBOT will be ineligible for CLIMB points unless and until it begins a new CLIMB from the floor, Level 0.
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Additionally, it appears as though any sort of mechanism that would reach out and grab onto the pyramid levels from the inside to lift the robot up would occupy a more than 54" diameter circle. If the rules allowed the robot to touch any level in any order, that strategy might work, but 3.2.5.2 G23
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Originally Posted by Game Manual Page 34
A ROBOT’S horizontal dimensions may never exceed a 54 in. diameter vertical cylinder.
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Please, be sure to correct me if I have misunderstood anything you have said.