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Originally Posted by MiniNerd24
Question. According to those rules you can't attach or grapple the opponent or trailer... nor can you touch anywhere bu the bumpers... so can you lift them up using their bumpers or is that a form of grappling?
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B. Contact within the BUMPER ZONE is generally acceptable.
C. If a portion of the BUMPER PERIMETER polygon is unprotected by BUMPERS, any
contact by another ROBOT within the unprotected region (including the vertical
projection of the unprotected region) will be considered incidental contact and will not be
penalized.
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according to the above it shouldn't be a form of grappling
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Originally Posted by eNyoron
What if you were to construct your robot in such a way that it can reach into the trailer while staying within the 28 by 38 bounds? For example, what if the robot was 28 by 14 and had a two foot extendable arm that knocked balls out of the trailer?
In this regard, the rules seem to be vague, since you stay within dimension constraints at all times and don't really "grapple" onto the trailer.
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Well Yes but if you reach to the trailer, then you are going outside your bumper zone, the trailer's bumpers aren't considered apart of the robot's bumper zone so you would be violating:
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E. Contact outside of the BUMPER ZONE is not acceptable, and will result in a PENALTY.
The offending ROBOT may be disqualified from the MATCH if the offense is particularly
egregious or if it results in substantial damage to another ROBOT.
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