"Out of the box designs"

[EricH]

Originally Posted by magnets

The robot height rule applies only during the duration of the match, so right as the match ends, have a pneumatic cylinder pull a pin that releases a really tall arm that dumps four colored discs in the top of you pyramid goal.

Would this actually be legal? If it is, then you get 2/3 of a thirty point climb with almost no effort (compared to building a climber)

There's a couple of reasons this wouldn't work, illegality being one.

First, the definition of scored requires the disc to be in the goal at the end of the match, which is elsewhere to be defined as when the clock hits 0 +5 seconds for stuff to stop moving.

Second, never does mean never. I'm going to argue that your "when the match ends" includes the +5 second stoppage time if I lose the match, and certainly violates the "never" in R03-C. I'll also call for a disable (G05) and an alliance DQ for a robot that was illegal (T06). And I'll request that T07 be invoked to keep you off the field until such device was taken off.


Now, if you wanted to do something similar, try modding your disc shooter so that it can also drain shots into the pyramid goals with a special speed or angle or both. I think someone actually did this. You could also try doing something that slams up to 83" and tries to push all the discs out in a nice arc on stopping, but I think that would be harder.