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Originally Posted by Erik Huang
I brought that idea up at kickoff, but people were especially skeptical that such a thing might be possible. The amount of coordination between teams would be insane, especially if there isn't another robotics team near you.
Coming from the Montreal region, almost half of the teams at the Montreal regional will be rookies (either brand new teams, or 1 to 2 years old). Granted, some of them are insanely good, and are quickly catching up to us, but still, it would be really hard to organize and get everyone to stick with it.
If we could devise a standardized way to get two robots to climb together, that would be cool... but would it be a waste of time?
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There is a standardized way: deploy a copy of the pyramid around one half of your robot (so including a corner and at least a few feet of bar to one side) at 30 inches. Any robot built to hang can then hang on that bar, then you can pull them up for 60 points. That depends on the other robot being able to hang, however.
It also depends on how you interpret the climbing rules... but it is my belief that robots have successfully climbed if they get to level 3 height without touching any parts of the pyramid.