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Posted by Raul.

Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.

Posted on 7/14/99 10:54 AM MST


In Reply to: More info, and a little oppinion of my own posted by Daniel on 7/13/99 9:11 PM MST:



Daniel,

In response to your statement: 'In fact, I was not a fan of the way a robot on the puck can raise their basket and suddenly become invulnerable anyway.'

Woodie clearly stated, and even acted it out with people at each competition, that it was OK to push, pull or drag a robot that is on or trying to get on the puck. And, if as a result of the pushing or pulling the robot happens to tip over, that is legal. However, it is when a robot is off in a corner, 'not engaging the puck', that you are not allowed to cause it to tip when it raises it's floppies.

I asked the refs (who did an excellent job throughtout the competition) to verify these rules for me when the competition started to see if they were using the same criteria as the FIRST refs. They also comfirmed that it was OK to hold down someone from raising the floppies as long as they wanted as long as they were not also getting pinned against a border of the field. That is why you were asked to back off - you were holding down the basket but were also pinning no. 178 against the border right in front of the human player.

Raul