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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
In 2003, your robot wasn't supposed to be designed to react against certain parts of the field. Truck Town built a robot that went into the middle of the field and unfolded over some of those elements in such a way that it made it effectively impossible for their opponents to cross the field (a chokehold strategy if ever there was one). Unfortunately, if they had gotten pushed they would react against those elements and become immovable. T3 was confident that they had enough traction that that wouldn't be an issue, but their design was deemed illegal. Here's a pic of the robot in its unfolded mode: picture. |
Wow!
I had no idea Triple T inspired the no field element support rule. I just thought it was always that way.
Considering the "No one pushes Truck Town Thunder!" it would've worked too if it wasn't for those meddling rules!