Poofs Red Card Question?

[martin417]

Originally Posted by rich2202

I think the general rule is that anything that falls off the robot is Field Debris, including bumpers. The robot is non-compliant with the bumper rules because of the missing piece, not because the piece is on the floor.

So, a robot could make it to the batter and score.

I disagree. the manual defines a challenge as:

an act performed by a ROBOT, such that at the conclusion of the MATCH, the ROBOT is fully supported by the TOWER, but hasn’t met the criteria for SCALING the TOWER

(emphasis mine)

The manual further defines a ROBOT as:

an electromechanical assembly built by an FIRST Robotics Competition Team to perform specific tasks when competing in FIRST STRONGHOLD. It includes all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game: power, communications, control, BUMPERS and movement. The implementation must
obviously follow a design approach intended to play FIRST STRONGHOLD (e.g. a box of unassembled parts placed on the FIELD or a ROBOT designed to play a different game would not satisfy this definition)

(emphasis mine)

If any part of the ROBOT is not supported by the tower, it is not a successful challenge.