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Re: What is best for lowering the middle wheel?

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Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing
Well according to the rules, you aren't allowed to score from any position than your starting one. If they're going to strictly enforce this, you are going to get penalties if you're going to rock on your middle wheel. Good luck with getting away with that though.

EDIT: Starting position meaning vertically, not the position of the bot on the field.
I cannot understand what you're trying to say.

If you're saying that everything has to remain vertical--it does. Unless you do an absolutely terrible job of putting together your robot, and things are sliding up and down and back and forth, even if you rock maybe ~5* or something, everything on your robot still remains vertical with respect to the base of the robot. This is all that matters, as it would be illegal to climb the ramp if what you say is true.

And at any rate, I think you've entirely misinterpreted rule G17, as seen below.

<G17> ROBOT Orientation - ROBOTs must maintain their vertical orientation with respect to their starting
position throughout the match. ROBOTs may not intentionally tip over onto one of their initially vertical
sides and operate with this side parallel to the ground. If a ROBOT is accidentally or intentionally tipped
over onto its side, it cannot score any balls in any goals from this orientation.

It makes no mention of rocking back and forth, only falling over.
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