YMTC: Bluabot Pushes Red Vision Tetra

[Steve W]

The tetra is not an extntion of the robot period. Red wins.

[JWhiskers]

During one of our qualification matches at Detroit, the other alliance had all three of their robots behind the line. But one of them was holding a tetra that was touching outside the line. They did not get their 10 points because of that tetra.
If the rules are followed to the letter I believe that the red alliance would lose their ten points

[Goldeye]

Originally Posted by JWhiskers

During one of our qualification matches at Detroit, the other alliance had all three of their robots behind the line. But one of them was holding a tetra that was touching outside the line. They did not get their 10 points because of that tetra.
If the rules are followed to the letter I believe that the red alliance would lose their ten points

I like the idea that a tetra which has been loaded onto the robot is considered an extension of it, especially when the mechanism holding it would fall out of the line. That is, a tetra loaded at a loading station, or lifted intentionally off the ground, is a part of the bot as long as it remains on the bot. Would be nice.

Edit: That'd only be in terms of a any contact the bot makes, though. If the bot is controlling it, then why should it be allowed to make any contact the bot can't. Still, on this idea, you could say the tetra you're trying to score as time runs out is touching the one under it, therefore disqualifying both :/ Another reason contact after it is scored and backed away from shouldn't descore a stacked tetra.