[Dan Petrovic]

Refs tend to catch high speed ramming when it happens.

Honestly, I don't see it as a problem. Unless you make your robot out of cardboard, no 120 pound robot going 9 ft/s is going to damage it all that much.

Robots lived through 2003, they can live through all of these games as long as the teams continue to make them sturdy. We used the kit frame in 2005, there were quite a few hits to us and from us. That robot never broke simply because we were hit. Being tipped is a different story.

We'd drive, full speed, into the wall at the human loader zone. Is that not similar to another robot slamming, full speed, into another robot?

If a team does some high-speed ramming and a robot falls over, then something else can be discussed. At this point, high-speed ramming shouldn't be breaking robots.

I'm not saying your idea is bad. I'm just saying it's not necessary.