Odd things the rules allow, and should probably be changed

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by pbhead

Can someone link the story behind this?

Orlando Regional Elims last year. Something went wrong on Bacon and they needed to be a push bot for a match, so they added batteries for ballast (not connected electrically), ran it by an inspector and got it okayed. Then it was retroactively declared illegal and the alliance was retroactively DQ'd after they had advanced. Pretty painful on all sides. Last year's R21 equivalent was slightly fuzzy on whether ballast batteries were legal. It seemed like ballast batteries were probably illegal, but only after some heavy careful word parsing. Glad to see they've made it abundantly clear this year.

Originally Posted by asid61

Flight is prohibited, as is jumping IIRC. I would double check the manual, but we're probably not considering flight.

I don't see any rules that prohibit flight, actually. Though practically speaking, you're just not making a drone with an 8 lb payload out of RS550s, a lead acid battery, and all the required electronics.