Designs that would never work...

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Originally Posted by Cyberguy34000

This design has one very obvious and fatal flaw, besides being illegal because it sits on top of the goal. In order to work the stilt/arms it would have have the strength of titanium and the weight of a toothpick. Oh, well...

I'm not sure that it is illegal to sit on top of the goal. <G20> says that "ROBOTS may not grab, grasp, grapple or attach to the GOALS or any other field structure". However, it says nothing about reacting against field structures. I'm not sure that sitting on a goal counts as grabbing, grasping, grappling, or attaching.

Originally Posted by Cyberguy34000

I actually really liked this design and it might have actually been a remote possibility if it weren't for the new rule this year about trapping opponents. It counts off 10 points for every 10 seconds you have trapped an enemy robot. So if you trapped all 3 enemy robots, depending on how fast you did it, you'd be seriously screwed, with a little over -350 points in penalties.

I searched the PDFs, and didn't find any rule about trapping (the words trap or trapping never appear). <G21> only referrs to pinning, where a robot is unable to move at all and is pressed between you and a field element (pinning an opponant robot between two alliance robots is legal). Blocking off a section of the field is legal as long as your opponant has any movement.