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Re: Ball eject

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Originally Posted by Mr. Lim View Post
A very BIG test of gracious professionalism

I'm not sure where to go with this aspect of the game.

I'm asking myself very seriously, if a robot can't automatically eject a ball when disabled, should it be allowed to intake it?

Autonomous is also very tricky - if your robot requires the ball to be inside your robot at the start of the match, and can't be easily freed by another robot, your alliance partners might ask you not to run it.

How would you feel if your alliance partners ask you never to pick up a ball? Or to not run your autonomous?

Would you ask your alliance partners not to do those things?

Because right now, this seems like the prudent thing to do.
It's a terrible enough feeling at a regional telling a team "Hey we need you to put this giant net on and sit there and not do what your robot was designed to do because of the nature of the game." I cannot imagine telling someone they cannot play the game in its proper form because "We don't trust your robot's design".

Heck, there are times when a team will just refuse and try it anyways and when the ball gets stuck then what do you do? The rules pertaining to this are not fair for any member of an alliance.

An E-Stopped robot with a ball most definitely should not have its ball counted. That way there's at least a way to keep playing the game for the other 2.
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