Joe: You don't have to move them for the carpet to be damaged ... they do that all on their own!
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Originally posted by Gui Cavalcanti
There are file brushes on Beatty's shuffling feet... don't those things damage the carpet? I mean, if robots start pushing back on beatty and those feet slip, doesn't that have the potential to be *really* bad for the carpet?
Also, how'd they get past the "sharp pointy objects" rule on the inspection list?
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They don't rip the carpet - but they do bunch it up. There is even a close-up of Beatty crawling during one of the elim. matches and you can see that they are bunching up the carpet. If you look in the rules, DQ4 says, "Deliberately damaging the playing field, controls or balls is strictly illegal and will result in disqualification of your alliance. Robot wheels must not, for example, damage the field carpet. This will be checked during robot inspection at registration on the first event day and throughout the competition.
Bunching up or puckering the carpet is considered damage to the field." - Though they don't rip the carpet, they do bunch it up when they crawl, as mentioned before. They do, however, rip the tape dividing the field into zones. The tape has to be redone after every match Beatty is in.
I am almost positive that they cannot move backwards. They have drive wheels in back but once the file cards are down and crawling, the drive wheels become useless. But again, the people on team 71 are the experts! No one at MMR, at least that I am aware of, tried to push Beatty from behind. Beatty cannot let go of goals after they grab them. After the qualification match we beat them in, it took the refs over three minutes to pry Beatty off of one goal. Like Mike said: once they have the goal, there's no getting it away from them. Their grabbers also slide up and down the PVC arm so they can adjust when grabbing the goal.
- Katie