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Originally Posted by Justin M.
Just curious but WHY would you want to design your robot to intentionally pop the tubes?
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To Fit more on a spider rack.
Imagine this. You are blue. You put a blue one on a rack, red comes over and puts a red one in front of yours.
In a normal "inside the box" way of looking at things, you just lost that position.
What if you popped a spoiler and placed it over the red ring?
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Or popped a blue and put it in front of the red ring now giving you back your scoring position.
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With popped tubes being all over the place I can see this happening legitimately. - A team picking up an already popped tube and placing it for a win.
How the refs will decide on this will be interesting.
They can either say
A) They count and is just a loophole no one thought about yet (until this post)
B) Popped Tubes won't count. (going against the current rules, and causing havoc in week 2 or more.)
I don't envy the position of the GDC right about now.
*No I don't condone popping of tubes intentionally.
I'm just saying it could happen in a scenario where there are popped tubes laying around on the floor.
(And yes, that will happen. Tubes will pop and they will be laying on the floor - ready to be grabbed).