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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 7/19/99 7:45 PM MST


In Reply to: i'm on your side posted by colleen on 7/18/99 10:33 PM MST:



To all the anything goes as long as you are not intentially trying to break anyone crowd:

I am afraid I disagree. There is legal and there is lousy.

I guess that I have a dislike of a strategy that is more than likely to cause an opponent robot to break.

Torriod Terror (the year of the tipper) was a good case in point. While it was legal to tip, I would venture to guess that more than half of the machines that were legally tipped didn't answer the bell for their next round (or if they did were hobbled beyond hope, a la TJ2 in the finals at the Rumble at the Rock II).

In 6 weeks, it is just to d--- easy to build a brute with a muscular spatula rather than an elegant machine that can pushes the engineering envelope AND take the Nestee Plunge onto a hardwood floor while doing it.

In my humble opinion, flipping/tipping/etc. was/is legal but lousy.

Be that as it may, we are willing to play the game, we just want to know the rules before we get to our first regional.

If FIRST is to become Robot Wars, so be it.

We will just make sure that we fall softly... ...and carry a big stick ;-)

Bring on the 2000 games...

Joe J.

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