Ramming and Hitting

[Greg Perkins]

Originally Posted by BRosser314

Remember I believe that if you are goinjg to hit some other teams robot at full speed you cant be any further away then like 3 or 5 feeet. Someone please verify with me. But do u think that FIRST is going to disable those bots that are in a low gear and move at about 2ft/s get penalized if they are moving from across the arena and hit another robot and push them. Will that be classified as ramming because if they were to stop at 3 ft away the other robot could just move. I have looked throught the manual and as a senior I should know this, but is there a max speed that you can go when hitting another robot?

If a robot is in "low gear" as you said, that's not full speed. If a robot is moving at say 2 fps, you will not see a penalty or DQ, however if you were in "high gear" moving at another robot from across the field, need I even say the outcome? Let's try not to paint a grey area in what is now white or black. USE YOUR JUDGEMENT!!!