"Out of the box designs"

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Originally Posted by EricH

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.

You're right, it's illegal, but a "match" doesn't include the 5 seconds at the end. The game manual says matches are 2 minutes and 15 seconds long. So, you wouldn't get a foul for being too tall, but your disc doesn't count.

It looks like climbing is the only thing that gets the extra five seconds, not discs.