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Unread 09-01-2011, 01:04
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Re: Minibot

"MINIBOT RACE – a competition in which MINIBOTS are DEPLOYED, climb the TOWER, and TRIGGER the TARGET. The MINIBOT RACE begins at the start of the END GAME."

"MINIBOT – an autonomous vehicle designed and built to perform specific tasks when competing in the 2011 competition LogoMotion. The MINIBOT must obviously follow a design approach intended to play the 2011 FRC END GAME and must be compliant with all MINIBOT rules defined in Section 3.4.14."

It's a climbing race using autonomous vehicles. Deployment is "positioning on" the tower/pole. As soon as its positioned, it is autonomous, and applying any momentum from the HOST would violate that. No rule change required in my mind. Seems quite a reach to interpret this as launching inactive mass (whether on the pole or not), and if it (repeatedly, intentionally) falls back down uncontrolled, you'll undoubtedly get flagged/disqualified, if you even pass inspection...