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Re: 2007 Lone Star Regional
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Originally Posted by RyanN
Yeah, one of the teams from the 118, 476 and 1745 alliance figured out that if they push the Brazilian team by the side that it would knock off their treads, and in the final match they bent 1/4" aluminum on them that connected to their arm. Very rough defense was played by us as well. Both alliances were struggling in the finals to keep running. We had the battery cable yanked out in one of the matches. I want to congratulate teams 118, 476 and 1754 on their great work and we hope to see them at nationals.
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Technically, (edit: any) strategy used by 118, 476 and 1745 to (edit: intentionally) damage the Brazilian robot is not legal:
<G35> Intentional ROBOT - ROBOT interaction - Strategies aimed solely at the destruction, damage, tipping over, or entanglement of ROBOTS are not in the spirit of the FIRST Robotics Competition and are not allowed.
If the contact was not high-speed ramming and was made strictly within the bumber zone, a penalty would probably not be called. Whether it is penalized or not, adopting a strategy that damages an opposing robot (due to a known vulnerability) is not GP...
Edit: <G35> is the ""FIRST is not BattleBots" rule. I don't believe any team involved thinks of FIRST as BattleBots and probably has to remind the public frequently what we really do
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Last edited by David Brinza : 02-04-2007 at 01:58.
Reason: I did not intend to imply wrong-doing by any of the teams
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