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Re: Gas Shock Legality?

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Originally Posted by Karibou View Post
So would that mean that using a spring to store energy at the beginning of the match is illegal too? I would think that bending/expanding/etc a spring (or in this case, using a gas shock) of any kind would qualify as "deforming a ROBOT part."


Definitely hit up the Q&A with the question, though.
I would agree with this too.

Can someone please bring this up in the Q&A system or point me towards an answer already posted in Q&A? We're planning on using a gas strut on our machine this year and it would be compressed (Storing Energy) at the beginning of a match...
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