YMTC: Redabot "Clangs" Tetras Together

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YMTC: Redabot "Clangs" Tetras Together

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09-03-2005, 11:22

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Re: 10 point penaty.

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Originally Posted by nartak

Technically the ROBOT did not touch the loading station Tetra (or as some may say, Tetram). Rather, a tetra that the robot just happened to be holding hit the loading station tetra.

I didn't notice anything in the rules this year that explicitly considers a held tetra to be an extension of the robot. That surprises me. Still, there's ample precedent for awarding the penalty to the robot causing the undesired contact, even if that robot itself never touched the forbidden object.

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