Last year, judges would allow a robot to "ram" an opposition robot once, but not allow it to continuously back off and ram them again and again. Kings-of-the-hill will be sitting pretty (for lack of a better term) if the judges enforce this rule again this year. If, however, the judges allow us to do what it takes to break a robot's traction on the platform, then I hope that the ramp dominators have built machines that can take a beating because we will get through.
It brings up an interesting question. Is it fair to allow for ramming of ramp dominators? I'm sure that your answer will be based upon whether or not you are a ramp-dominator, but I'll ask anyway.
I'm all about opening up on someone that sticks themselves to the top of the ramp. Especially since FIRST is going for the spectator-quality game. Watching 1:45 of barricade just doesn’t seem like it would be appealing.
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