Damage to Innertubes

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Justin M.

Just curious but WHY would you want to design your robot to intentionally pop the tubes?

To Fit more on a spider rack.

Imagine this. You are blue. You put a blue one on a rack, red comes over and puts a red one in front of yours.

In a normal "inside the box" way of looking at things, you just lost that position.

What if you popped a spoiler and placed it over the red ring? *

Or popped a blue and put it in front of the red ring now giving you back your scoring position. *

With popped tubes being all over the place I can see this happening legitimately. - A team picking up an already popped tube and placing it for a win.

How the refs will decide on this will be interesting.

They can either say

A) They count and is just a loophole no one thought about yet (until this post)

B) Popped Tubes won't count. (going against the current rules, and causing havoc in week 2 or more.)

I don't envy the position of the GDC right about now.



*No I don't condone popping of tubes intentionally.
I'm just saying it could happen in a scenario where there are popped tubes laying around on the floor.
(And yes, that will happen. Tubes will pop and they will be laying on the floor - ready to be grabbed).