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Lightbulb Legality of a Strategy/Bot Concept

So during the build season, as a bit of a joke, some people on our team were theorizing about different game strategies that were much different then the normal approach. One idea that emerged was a robot that could play defense in a way that has not been done this year.

OK, so picture a robot that is as light as possible. Perhaps one that uses 775's instead of CIMs, and lots of lexan and carbon fiber and aluminum and printed parts, just as light as possible. So now, imagine a robot that could somehow attach itself to the climbing bar in the of the tower without breaking the height limit rule. Now, what if this robot was driven to the base of the tower it was defending right after auto ended, and somehow managed to scale the tower without breaking the height rule. Once up, the body/chassis of the bot would block the center high goal, and fifteen inch arms would block the other two high goal windows. The attacking alliance would not be able to shoot into the high goals, and would be restricted to the low goals.

Now, if legal, this strategy would never get you to be a alliance captain, but if you where picked, since eliminations goes solely by win/loss, and you would prevent the opposition from scoring hardly any points in the tower, I think you would have a good chance at winning.

Now obviously there are flaws in this idea, but what I am wondering is if there is anyway you could pull this off. It goes without saying that building a robot that could climb without breaking the height rule (perhaps jumping up to the bar or suction cups to climb the tower?) is difficult, but i am wondering how or if it could be done. So when commenting, just try to humor the idea before saying its impossible.
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