[Thad House]

The rules state that the landfill is bounded by but not including the guardrail. However the rules also say that the field is bounded by and including the guardrail. And since G7 just states you can't be in the landfill, and must be fully supported by the carpet or scoring platform, it is legal to actually go around the landfill. And since the guardrail is said to be inside the field, it becomes really hard to actually call it illegal. Now mechanically this device is very difficult to make, because it has to be cantilevered 6 ft out and then 10 feet into the field. We tried building it out of square tube, and twisted the bar close to 70 degrees. But in the end we did have a 2 can version working.

And yes it was able to be setup in 60s. Their drive team was practicing all through elims.

This game actually had a ton of loopholes. Like for instance purposely taking a G7 penalty was still only a disable. So technically if a team didn't mind getting a robot disabled, they could have started in the holes, and had another robot pulling that bot, and potentially using the manual actuation buttons on the pneumatics to move arms and such.

I just wish we would have figured this out before last week so we would actually have had time to build something cool.