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No Free Pass
Posted by Dodd Stacy.
Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.
Posted on 7/15/99 10:20 PM MST
In Reply to: No...I don't...anymore =) posted by Daniel on 7/15/99 4:26 PM MST:
Daniel,
The rules do not confer an air-tight security on vulnerable robots with their floppy lifts raised. They just require a defensive robot to execute his attack carefully and with good timing. Here's one example that applies to an opponent sitting against the rail and raised: wait till the final 10 seconds, drive up next to him and (gently and carefully) push his lifter laterally just enough to get the floppies in the basket to break the plane of the court boundary. Perfectly legal, no damage. By the way, those are zero point floppies, not one pointers.
Here's another. Drive up beside your opponent, reach up and over his basket, and pluck his floppies out and drop them.
There are others - be creative.
The rules don't absolutely prevent your objective of taking away points, but they do recognize the increased liklihood of damage when 4 foot tall robots tangle 8 or 10 feet in the air. And you may have to endow your robot with some special capabilities to take advantage of the limited legal opportunities to take away points. Nobody said it was supposed to be easy!
Dodd
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