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Your Examples
Your examples do not highlight the biggest part of the intent of the rule. Getting pushed around on the playing field and designing a robot to be immovable on the ramp (one big key this year) are 2 entirely different things. If a King of the Hill Bot uses the field borders to gain its immovability, then it is in violation of GM31. This is NOT incidental. It is intentional. 25 points and complete positional domination is gained by a method prohibited by rule GM31. I am inspector at 2 regionals this year and if I run across a robot designed like this, I will notify the head referee and get his or her opinion on the issue citing GM31.
However, I say again that I am willing to bet team 68 is pushing hard enough against the floor to make this a non-issue for them.
Time will tell...
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