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Unread 08-01-2009, 13:37
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Re: No-show teams and trailers

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Originally Posted by Mike Starke View Post
One thing that I do see, is that if FIRST did send a trailer out by itself, it's starting position is right in front of an opposing teams PS. As an insult to injury, that alliance could stock up on moon rocks in that PS position and at the start of the match have an easy shot to score points on the robotless trailer. I am intrigued to find out the ruling.
I was thinking the same thing. However, if the red alliance had a dead trailer in front of the blue's fueling station, wouldn't that prevent the blue alliance from herding moon rocks to that player?

I can see robots trying to move the trailer out of the way, but I can see that as being hazardous to the field.

If they would force the team to an inoperable robot on the field, that could be even harder to remove from the fueling station.