Pinning? Apparently I just don't seem to understand

[Andy A.]

Originally Posted by Brindza

Also, I am still amazed that people still believe that it is not pinning due to a design issue.

Movement was not inhibited.

All the other team did was limit where you could drive. You where not forced into doing something that was impossible or illegal, like driving through the field enclosure to escape. Your option was to drive up the ramp. Or to turn 90 degrees and drive around the other bot. But, you couldn't not because of the other robots actions but because of your robots capabilities.

Take this example. Remove the ramp and imagine 2 robots on the field. One robot, Red bot, can only drive forward due to a programming problem that just manifested it's self. Blue bot positions it's self so that it blocks Red bot from driving forward anymore. This takes place in the middle of the field on level surface.

Should a pin be called?

One last time. Movement was not inhibited. You could move. The video shows that. Movement in the direction you wanted to go in was inhibited. But as has been said many times, that is blocking, not pinning.

-Andy A.