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Originally Posted by Donut
To be ELEVATED a robot must be in contact with the TOWER and above the PLATFORM plane (20"). How does another robot above 20" touching you cause you to no longer satisfy the ELEVATED condition? As long as both of you are above 20" and both end up touching the tower some how you would still get the 4 points for both robots being ELEVATED, robot to robot contact has no effect on whether a robot is considered ELEVATED.
Just make sure your suspending mechanism is likely to keep your partners above 20", if so there's a relatively small difference between 4 and 5 points for your alliance.
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Ahh... understood, I guess for some reason I had it in my mind that the second robot may be likely to hang below the 20 inches, but that's a good point that if both are above the 20" that you still get the 4 points. I guess I didn't think of it that way
I still think if it were my choice I wouldnt bother adding a bar to my robot unless I had size & weight and the ability to support another robot... meaning I wouldnt design it in from the beginning. If it fit afterward fine, but I think we are likely to see maybe 1 hanging suspension per regional unless anyone designs a super tiny robot that just zips around the field and hangs!