[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by iVanDuzer

So, no, nobody has ever thought of building a flipping robot, because to do so would almost certainly mean losing every single match you ever play.

While certainly true this year, there was a robot specifically designed for flipping robots if you dig deep enough into FIRST History. The Rhode Warriors (121) built a robot with a flipping mechanism in 1997 (I think...) that spawned a lot of stories. And then intentional flipping was promptly made illegal the next year, and has been ever since.