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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
Give me a break. I've seen rookie teams with practically no money, mentors, or facilities who built perfectly capable tetra-manipulating machines. I don't buy resources as an excuse for why teams build robots that are really only capable of running into other robots. Teams who were interested in manipulating tetras found a way, even if that meant basically just pushing them into the goals. After all, each side has 2 tetras already on the field (vision), yet they go unscored in many matches.
Do you honestly think that interfering with a robot trying to score or running into them again and again is "creative" and "outside the box thinking" (regardless of whether or not it's legal)? I don't.
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The new modified rule refers extensively to "pushing", not ramming. I thought ramming has been, is, and always will be illegal, and no new rules are necessary to make it even more so. Last time I checked, Rule G25 defines pushing low as legal. Now pushing low and causing an offensive bot to knock tetras off a goal because they can't handle the force of that legal maneuver is considered a violation of the rules for the pushing robot. My interpretation of this new rule must have differed from yours. I wonder if referees will have the same differences of opinion with their interpretation....