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Re: Intentionally blocking traffic in Hybrid

As Vogel said earlier, we did ask the refs ahead of time to see if it was legal or not. In previous years, it has always been a legitimate autonomous strategy to block the opponent's robot. I remember quite a few robots last year who circled around behind the rack and blocked the robots trying to score. For those of you who don't know, Bomb Squad's robot is MASSIVE. I believe on it's longest axis it is 56 inches long. This is why when they start the match, they lean up against the rear wall, and during autonomous, drop down onto the flat.
As for the pushing approach 1024 talked about earlier, that's a nice idea, but a 4 wheel robot with tractions also facing perpendicular to where you want to go really doesn't move. Believe me, we've tried on last years' robot. The conveyor belting almost acts like velcro on the carpet of the field. We got hung up numerous times on the carpet where it was taped down on the field. When we would drive over it, the carpet decided it was going to try to come up with the wheels.
All in all, it was an awesome regional, and some very exciting eliminations, and had the opposing robots not run into 16, we would have lost that first match as well to the 30+ point autonomous.
Malhon
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