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Re: Catapulting minibot

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
No part of the rules says this at all.
True, no rule. I'm just thinking if the mini has enough momentum on the way up to overcome the pole friction and target switch force, you probably have a good bit of mass and so a good bit (even tho probably somewhat less) on the way down. Which might be considered "damaging" to the base. especially if they let everybody do it all the time. Maybe like kornjones said, some well placed padding might save the day...

But its all moot if climbing requires traction, which I'm betting on. The GDC wants a climbing race, not a shoot-em-up-in-the-air, so I think they will either interpret or clarify the existing rules in that direction.

But I could be wrong. That would be oh, 6 or 7 times today... that I know of