What is the hardest (yet possible) task in this year's game?

[MrBamboo]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

As the weeks go by and the physics of the game sinks in, I think the real magic trick is going to be finding a way to guard or block the center goal, parked infront of it (not chasing robots around to block their shots).

I notice the rules say you cannot extend in a 'stable manner' above a certain height - does that mean you could take swipes at a ball in flight, if your flayling arms are not intristically 'stable' ?

I think the rule means that its ok if you exceed the height limit if an accident happens and your robot flips over and the diagonals goes over 5 feet.

Other wise the height rule pretty much says you cannot block the goal or other robot's firing mechanism. Well unless their shooter is not placed at the max height, which I doubt since that would make their shooter very easily blocked.

The closest thing I've heard about interfering with a shooter other than just plain collision of robots is using pneumatics to blow air in front of opponent shooters to offset the flight path of the launched ball. However I'm not entirely sure this is legal so you probably should check on that. Also since you have to take time to recompress air it will not be consistant.