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Originally posted by Mark Pettit
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.
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Obviously you missed *EVERY* one of our matches.. We were the big green robot that held all 3 goals (sometimes) and just anchored in the center of the field. Robots would start at the player station and ram full speed into a wing that was not supporting a goal several times over again and this was allowed. We also got the last DQ of the nation because a team repeatedly rammed into one of our wing joints where we had some string helping to strengthen the joint, they became entangled, freed themselves, then entangled themselves again... we were DQed.
Point being: If you're going to build a king-of-the-hill bot, be prepared to take a beating. Robot-to-Robot contact and damage is allowed if the defending robot is in a scoring position.