YMTC: Bluabot sits on Redabot

[mtaman02]

Ok I have a question about this ! Blue bot sat itself on Red Bot during the match or after.

Ah yes this is a stumper!

If this was intentional (like Blue bot just decides to drop them themselves to prevent red bot to get up) I would throw a few flags for aggressive action

If Blue bot gently lowered itself (a slow decent [i've seen some robots make a decent as soon as the match is up]) then I see no real issue and Blue would be counted as hanging and red bot would be counted as touching the floor gets nothing.

I'm tired and typing in te dark right now :-) and in no shape to turn the light on to search for a rule about this so someone with a lil bit more energy then I please find the rule and post. This seems like a better problem that will get much discussion

[Eric Bareiss]

Here's how I see it, there are three rules that need to be looked at.

1. A Blue robot can be touching a non-scoring Red robot and still get points.

2. The blue robot would still be hanging if everything else is removed therefore it is hanging. If Blue would not be hanging when Red was removed then it would not be considered hanging.

3. FIRST has said it is legal to "de-hang" another robot which is what Blue did to Red. They were hanging and Blue forced them to the platform.