Legality of Downwards-Sloping Ramps

[Justin Montois]

Oh boy look what we started. It was on my Facebook that the video of our downwards sloping ramp was posted.

Our minibot never "rolls" down the ramp. Any movement on the ramp is purely from the battery and minibot motors.

Chris said it best, the minibot stays below the deploy line the entire time and our "exit" point off the ramp is higher then the starting point so any energy gained by the ramp is lost.

I mean if we're going to lawyer this then the refs should have used a bubble level to make sure all deployment mechanisms fired out level or downwards. Any increase in degrees would mean the deployment mechanism is "pushing" the minibot up when it contacts the pole and arguably providing vertical movement to the minibot.