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Re: Penalties for a part falling off of robot?

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Originally Posted by jblay View Post
Although I agree that these penalties are ridiculous I think they are necessary because if the rule was changed to "no penalty if the bot goes out of dimensions because of it breaking" what happens if a bots hanger is deployed because something breaks, do they get a penalty or not?

That happened to us in St. Louis. We were playing midfield, and during autonomous our alliance member kicked a ball right into our hanger - the impact was big enough to cause it to become unlatched, and the gas spring sent the whole thing up... and slightly out of our frame perimeter. Our drive team handled it great, and played a very laid back game that time with no robot-robot interaction. We were not penalized.