I doubt that 494 had any intentional interest in damaging your robot. They played defense and played it well repeatedly, and their actions, while frustrating to those of us with offensive robots
worked for them. This competition demands robust, powerful machines, and that's something you should shoot for in the design of your robot.
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I also heard that the EXACT same thing happened to the Technokats.
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In the Archimedes finals (3rd match), 494 came through the back side of the stationary goal and used their arm to prevent our team from capping the stationary goal, which would have eliminated them and put us on Einstein. Being the TechnoKats arm operator, I must say that there was no way that I could get the ball in the goal. That's a heck of a machine, and they sucessfully defended our cap. I'm not aware of this breaking any rules. As far as other matches, many teams rammed other robots repeatedly, this isn't just something that 494 did.
Kudos to 494 for a tough bot, and congrats to the whole alliance for the Championship.