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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
ILet me say that I have NOT read the rules, but from how my daughter explained it to me, there is not a requirement for a particular robot be the BACKBOT but just that an ALLIANCE has to have a BACKBOT.
So it seems to me that the ALLIANCE would have to make a decision to keep playing defense with 3 robots (1 dead plus two alive) and racking up the penalties as a result or putting a live robot as the BACKBOT and doing their best to defend with only 1 live robot (and one dead one).
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Correct, if they know in advance that they'll have a dead robot. What if they forget to turn it on, and the field crew doesn't catch their error for them? What if they're in the middle position, straddling the line when that happens? Isn't that -70 points = (5 sec grace + 7 × 5 sec intervals) × 2 periods, at -5 per interval?
Painful!
Edit: Ryan's right. They send another teammate over to sit back, or alternatively, shove it into the right zone.