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Unread 09-01-2013, 09:28
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Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas

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Originally Posted by Garten Haeska View Post
I've read through this entire thread and i was just confused. Are you allowed to drive into the pyramid and latch onto the second rung and winch yourselves up or do you have to touch the first rung first? Or is it that if you are outside the pyramid and latch onto the second rung and winch your self to victory? Are they both legal? Neither? Please help or at least some clarification.
[I underlined the part I'm responding to.]

This would not be a legal climb (it would get 0 points). Game Manual section 3.1.5.2 says the robot must contact the pyramid levels in sequential order. This proposal would contact level 0 (floor) and 2 (second rung), but not level 1.

If you modify this somehow to make it valid, it would be 20 points.
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