Teams breaking the game

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I'm hoping some old-timers show up to regale us with stories of some of the pre-2001 games. I swear I've heard a story of a game breaking robot in 1995 that could score an unbeatable number of points once they got their hands on a ball by cycling it round and round one of the poles of the field goal.

I've heard of another game-breaker, this one from 1997. Sorry, no pictures that I know about (though I'm sure Andy Grady or the TechnoKats will be able to dig some up eventually), but this one is one of the few machines that directly created a rule. 71 (yes, those guys again) would stack a bunch of tubes on a part of their robot and put it on top of the scoring structure, then detach it and score some more with the rest. To this day, mechanisms cannot be intentionally detached from robots without a penalty.