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Originally Posted by Akash Shah
Okay, from reading the rules, I figured that we couldn't launch or really shoot the gear in any way. But I was just wondering if you were to rotate the gear 90 degrees to allow it to roll from the human player station without motors, if that could be legal. Thanks for the quick reply!
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As I understand this, you are thinking of building some sort of ramp that takes the gear from the loading station, passively rolls it to vertical and disgorges the gear at carpet level.
As the loading station is about two feet off the floor, and the gear is nearly a foot in diameter, you have 18-20" worth of gravitational potential energy. Even if you could do this with no friction at all and the speed at the carpet level is about 5 ft/s (actually a good bit less because energy will go into rotational energy with those gears having most of their mass near the edge). A gear rolling that slowly through a sea of balls and marauding robots? I can't picture that getting far enough to be worthwhile; better to snag the gear at the station and carry it.