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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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With corner climbing you have to factor in that you have to go over the corner somehow. During that process the robots lose a lot of their stability. Also if a robot is not balanced weight wise it has a tendency to twist toward to the heavier side. I would guess that less damage would occur if a robot fell from the face of the pyramid rather than the corner because the corner climbing robot is going to catch on something which could cause it flip over.