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Originally Posted by Bstep
Climbing on the corner gives you three points of contact. Two hooks on the corner rungs or gusset and the lower portion of the robot resting on the corner post. I saw many more robots fall from the face of the pyramid this year than from the corner. That being said, the higher number of robots falling from the face is probably because more teams tried climbing on the face than the corner.
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Interesting you bring that up; we were considering a corner climber but were deterred because you only have 3 points of contact that aren't in a favorable position relative to your center of mass. I was afraid it wouldn't take much to knock the robot sideways into an unstable position.
The face of the pyramid felt much safer, as it's easier to keep the robot in a stable position.