Thread: Team Update 1
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Re: Team Update 1

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Originally Posted by Libby K View Post
My question is, why would a team choose to SCALE by parking on another robot when CAPTURE needs each robot in its own zone?
Well, there's some good cheesecake for this year. Maybe a bit far fetched, but here's a scenario that gets 3 scales plus a CAPTURE with only 2 robots actually doing the lifting...

Team A cheesecakes Robot B to have a simple mechanism that dispatches a rare earth magnet and some string on an arm. Robot A (Team A's robot) is designed for another robot to drive on top of it and then lift both robots. Robot B drives on top of Robot A. Robot A lifts both so that both sets of bumpers are above the low goals. Robot B then extends the arm to bring the magnet close enough to the empty rung to touch it and "stick" to it via the magnetism. Robot C scales or has scaled the remaining side of the tower.

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Originally Posted by 2016 FRC Game Manual, p.5
A ROBOT has SCALED or CHALLENGED a unique face of the TOWER if it is the only ROBOT in contact with the attached RUNG and/or associated third of the BATTER below (i.e. a ROBOT may extend over the divider into the space of another face as long as it is not in contact with the RUNG or BATTER in front of that face)
In the above scenario, Robot A is the only robot in contact with Rung 1. Robot B is the only robot in contact Rung 2. Robot C is the only robot in contact with Rung 3. But, the bumpers of all three robots are above the low goal and only two robots did the lifting.
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Last edited by jee7s : 13-01-2016 at 15:09. Reason: Changed to incorporate three scales
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