Rubbin' is Racin'

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by tcjinaz

Any robot to robot contact that involves any thing other than bumpers is illegal and will be punished severely and equally to both robots.

I think your sentiment has merit, but that proposed rule amounts to a suicide pact, if by "severely and equally" you mean cards.

Now all I have to do is convince an alliance partner that they should go and interact as vigourously as possible with an opponent. Offer them candy, or money, or safety tokens (and don't tell the referees about the bribe). Anything of value to offset the card they're about to earn. For the rest of the qualifying round, that opponent will have to think twice about coming near any other robots, for fear of getting carded again (and dropping in the standings).

Even discounting subterfuge, this rule would probably offend our collective sense of justice. "You're punishing me for what they did to our robot?"