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Posted by Daniel.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M Gunn Senior High School and NASA Ames.

Posted on 7/13/99 10:24 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: More info, and a little oppinion of my own posted by Mike King on 7/13/99 9:56 PM MST:



I'm not saying we should blow each other up =)

I'm just saying a little defensive tipping should be okay. For example, tipping a robot that doesn't have any floppies raised should be illegal because it could be done just as easily by holding down their basket (something GRT did in almost all of it's rounds). However, tipping a robot that is raised, significantly alters that robot's score. Teams would be encouraged to build with a lower center of gravity and certain precautions such as grabbing a pole or extending anti-tipping thingies. I expect many will disagree with this, but I just feel that robots shouldn't be encouraged to make themselves vaulnerable like they were this year. Seriously, some of those lifts were just funny. Baskets were waving in the wind. Teams shouldn't be able to get away with that. Teams should build something they can be proud of; not something that looks like it was built by high school students.

-Daniel