Team Update #18

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by boomergeek

...move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after the start of DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors...

As long as gravitational potential lost plus gravitational potential gained is zero or negative below the deployment line- it provides NO ENERGY "to move up the POST". All energy is coming from the batteries/motors- but the allowed advantage for the rampbot is that its battery/motors energy expended as soon as it crosses into the deployment cylinder can be transferred through any shape ramp into vertical motion up the pole.

I envisioned from some of the descriptions a ramp with a net downward slope that allowed the bot to gain momentum from elevation change. If instead you are saying that the minibot gains momentum between the deployment cylinder and the pole by simply using its own motors to get a "head start" and then the track directs this momentum upward, then I would say that is legal, and a clever idea.