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Originally Posted by MattB703
Dr. Brooks
Do you really believe that the other team was trying to break your robot?
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I think that you can only look at the data and reach your own conclusions.
The robot does not really attempt to push. It backs up and impacts a
wheel at high speed. The left rear wheel pops off. The first broken
wheel is easily interpreted as an unintended consequence.
Our robot still moves, carefully, towards capping a goal. The robot
backs up again and rams the middle wheel at high speed, breaking it off.
This action was taken with knowledge of what had happened with the
first high speed impact, itself being against the rules.
Amazingly, our robot could still inch its way towards capping a goal.
Equally amazingly, the robot that had broken two wheels off then
impacts our robot several times again, in the location of the
remaining wheel on that side.
The driver came by after the match to see the damage done. He did
not apologize for the action and its consequences. He was asked why
he kept ramming us after breaking off two wheels. His answer was
that he did it because we were still moving.
This is what happened, YMTC.