YMTC: Redabot Scores 30 Bonus Points?

[seanwitte]

Originally Posted by Cody Carey

The question adressed by the GDC was definately not the question asked in this thread. This thread says that there are two seperate ramps, a robot is picked up by one ramp, with no gamepeice supporting it at all. The other ramp has no robot on it, but is being touched by a gamepeice.

OK, so the ramps are not part of the robot?

It is times like this when we may have to look at the spirit of the rule. The spirit, I believe, is that you cannot gain extra height from a lift by being on top of a tube... not that a tube touching the robot, which has absolutely no effect on another robot being lifted will null the score.

There really isn't any gray area here. A part of the robot is on top of a tube, therefore that robot and any robots on top of it are not eligible for bonus points. Whether it's being supported or not, the rule is very clear. Unless you're on the GDC you have no idea what the motivation behind the rule is. How do you know this wasn't intentional to make it more difficult to get those 60 bonus points? You can't just flop your ramps down willy-nilly and expect to score the bonus.