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Re: Ways to Handle Gears

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
The ramp idea is clever, but still illegal. The refs must consider your robot as black box. If a gear comes rolling out of your robot, it doesn't matter if it was passive or active. It was still caused by the robot and violates g24
I don't think this is true. First, the definition of LAUNCH specifically mentions an active mechanism. If the intent was active or passive, they would have said that.

Second, by your reasoning, if a gear is stuck on top of my bot and I stop quickly so that it falls off, I've just LAUNCHed a gear and get a yellow card. Penalizing someone for shaking off a gear that would otherwise get them penalized seems excessive.
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