[EricH]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

What???? Are you telling me that not a single team assumed that their robot could fall from the ground during the 2003 competition if they used the pull up bar. Come on.

They may not have assumed that they could, but at least one team did. (330 fell off once during LA qualifying rounds with no damage other than being flat on the floor for the rest of the match.) Assume that robots will fall over, be hit by other robots, be hit by game objects, and anything else you like. Build to couteract that. (Oh, and it was 2004. Of course, there was the possibility that a robot could turn turtle on the '03 ramp.)