Fastest Possible Canburglar

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Thad House

I'll explain when I have a few minutes and not on my cell phone, but we figured out a way to start in the holes legally. It was cheesecaked onto our 4th bot, but since it basically put a robot out of commission it wasn't worth playing in finals. Plus we were not exactly sure if it would be called legal or not, even though it was 100% within the rules and within the field.

I heard about this, double checked all the pertinent rules, and then grinned ear to ear. I'll let you post the details, but I was definitely blown away by your creativity.

One interesting aspect of this game is that the canburglar wars didn't really start until the last day of the season (as predicted by many). A side effect of this is that the canburglar rules/corner cases/how rules would be enforced by inspectors and referees were not really tested until Championships. Harpoon guns, crossbows, tennis balls on strings, hundreds of pounds of spring force, loopholes - there was a little of everything.

[Bennett548]

Ha! Nice find! I wish you had done it, it might have led to some interesting and productive discussions regarding lawyering and the assumed intent of the rules.

I asked a head ref about a similar case, and he said that he couldn't rule without seeing it, but said he would probably have asked the team to come back and fix the offending mechanism.

[mintyfresh]

I was definitely surprised by the amount of different mechanisms for grabbing the trashcans that came around after the last day of regionals. I don't know if the judges really expected that onslaught of teams trying to grab the cans in so many different ways and I have no idea what was up to inspection. The coolest thing, I would say, about the canburgler wars at worlds was the fact that it was really the only "defense" in the game this year so it was interesting at certain points to see that play out.