Intentionally tipping and disabling your own robot FTW...

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Intentionally tipping and disabling your own robot FTW...

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13-01-2008, 12:27

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Re: Intentionally tipping and disabling your own robot FTW...

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Originally Posted by keen101

The judges have a little panel that tells them everything. It also has disable buttons for them to use.

Last year, the judges claimed our robot's power momentarily spiked, so they disabled it. We were out an entire match. We never did figure out what went wrong. Our robot worked fine after too.

Wait, the Judges can tell how much power is going through your robot? 0.0

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