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Originally Posted by nehalita
One thing I noticed wasn't called was penalties due to contact outside of the 28x38x60 area (aka due to extensions).
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Neha is being very kind in her post, by speaking in generalities - her team was on the receiving end of what I felt was an obvious violation of the tipping rule during elimination matches. Another team with a long, high blocking "wing" that extended outside the base footprint came alongside them, turned around and used the force of their wing against the top of 1345's robot to tip them over. Intentional or not it happened right in front of the head ref who immediately signaled that there was no foul. If that's not a tipping violation I don't know what is.
I had an issue with the same robot and the 60" max height rule. This wing was statically within the rules but when used for blocking it would continually deflect several inches higher - it was made of PVC and contact with the other robot would bend it up. I must say, however, that this is an excellent feature and very effective so a simple modification could prevent violation of the 60" rule.