Minibot Falling off pole - Penalty?

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Update: Our team spoke to the head ref this morning about the rule and he informed us they would not be calling this as a penalty afterall. Thanks everyone for the input.

Glad to hear that the issue was resolved!

I also noticed (at least as well as could be seen from the webcast) that it seemed that 125 was successfully deploying the minibot yesterday without it falling off the pole! (Or, if it was falling off the pole, it was doing so after crash-landing on the base at the bottom.)

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter

Glad to hear that the issue was resolved!

I also noticed (at least as well as could be seen from the webcast) that it seemed that 125 was successfully deploying the minibot yesterday without it falling off the pole! (Or, if it was falling off the pole, it was doing so after crash-landing on the base at the bottom.)

Yes, when we heard originally they were going to be calling it a penalty, we added a feature to keep it on the pole. We were quite pleased with our Minibot performance, at one point we had 10 consecutive Minibot deployments and first place finishes.

Brando