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Originally Posted by Ken Leung
To me, the opponent must bear some responsibility in designing their robot such that when they are crossing the bump, they cannot be tipped easily. Otherwise, no one will dare doing any sort of defense on the bump. If any actions that lead to a tipped robot also lead to a penalty, regardless of the situation, I am just going to let the opponent cross the bump.
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Agreed.
I don't think it should matter if the other robot tipped or if the other robot broke. If your robot was agressively intending to break or tip another robot, it should be a penalty, regardless of the result.
As an analogy, in football penalties are not thrown when a player get hurts but when an illegal hit occured. It doesn't matter if the QB suffers a concusion, a helmet to helmet hit results in a 15 yard penalty. Bringing this idea back to the first word, it doesn't matter if the other robot breaks or tips, contact outside the bumperzone or contact with intent to damage results in a penalty.
(Although, I'm tempted to build a robot that is super tipy to teams would be afraid to get even close to me
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