Thread: Curie Semifinal 1 - 3, what happened?
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Re: Curie Semifinal 1 - 3, what happened?
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Originally Posted by Vogel648 View Post
It was a design flaw, not saying that the ramming was legal or anything like that, but it was a design flaw. Honestly, your arm should be able to hold up to the point where you tip over or be designed to fail in a way that is simple to repair(such as: shear pins).
I dont see why it would be necessary to design an arm such that you're expecting it to fail at some point. I wasn't at the championships but I was at GTR and I saw the Waterloo regional and these guys basically have a giant "Kick me" sign taped to their robot... If the opposing alliance has at least one moving robot chances are there's going to be some defence played. Considering this has been going on for several years I'd expect these guys to make a design that they feel would stand up to a fair amount of rough play.