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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur
mechanically, electrically, or programmably inept does not mean cannot move. A robot that cannot turn due to too high friction on the wheels coud be considered mechanically inept.... etc.
If a Robot throws a chain or loses motor wires (and is in the frontcourt) then another robot from that alliance must move to the back court or the damaged robot needs to be e-stopped (otherwise it should be penalized).
And, yes, your 120 LB weight could become a 40 point liability if it ends up on the wrong side of the field and is not E-stopped.
As far as the corner goal issue. If they enforced the ramming rules, then I dont believe they would have needed this clarification (JMHO).
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This happened to our alliance twice in elims, the first time 540 threw their battery, the second time they shorted to their frame. (At least, that's what they suspected) That said, having been in this position, I can tell you a 120lb weight can be very effective. Where 540 was they completely blocked a lower goal, not that it mattered in an elim against high scorers, but in a qualifier... Anyway, if you don't want this to happen ziptie and electrical tape all "joints" in the electrical system, loctite all bolts, have redundant systems, etc. For example, we threw a chain, and weren't useless, far from it! We still could play really rough defence because I made a drivetrain with redundant chains. Although that choice was made to help chain pathing, it saved our butt. (sort of, we still lost, but not that badly) Design like server admins, redundancy and fault tolerance in power supply (UPS/zipties), programming (UNIX/self-recovery), and delivery. (RAID/multiple drive chains)