Question on Lunacy!!!

[zant1234]

Hey my entire team is wondering about a certain rule. Is it allowed to take out a game piece from your or your alliance members' trailer? We couldn't find any rules against this and if we had the dimensions correct we could have a fork-lift in the front to raise the game pieces out of the trailers. Is this allowed?

[ExarKun666]

No read the following:

D. Contact with a tilted or tipped ROBOT outside the BUMPER ZONE (particularly by the
BUMPERS of the contacting ROBOT) will generally be considered incidental contact and
will not be penalized.
E. Contact outside of the BUMPER ZONE is not acceptable, and will result in a PENALTY.
The offending ROBOT may be disqualified from the MATCH if the offense is particularly
egregious or if it results in substantial damage to another ROBOT.
F. A ROBOT may not attach to and/or climb onto a ROBOT or TRAILER. Doing so will be
interpreted as an attempt to damage an opposing ROBOT, and will be penalized as
such.

So if you did get it form the other trailer you are reaching outside your bumper zone, and it might be considered attaching or climbing onto to the bot.

[zant1234]

Originally Posted by ExarKun666

No read the following:


So if you did get it form the other trailer you are reaching outside your bumper zone, and it might be considered attaching or climbing onto to the bot.

Ok thank you very much!

[GaryVoshol]

Don't worry about the attaching/climbing rule. Worry about staying inside the 28x38 inch footprint.

[MiniNerd24]

Question. According to those rules you can't attach or grapple the opponent or trailer... nor can you touch anywhere bu the bumpers... so can you lift them up using their bumpers or is that a form of grappling?

[eNyoron]

What if you were to construct your robot in such a way that it can reach into the trailer while staying within the 28 by 38 bounds? For example, what if the robot was 28 by 14 and had a two foot extendable arm that knocked balls out of the trailer?

In this regard, the rules seem to be vague, since you stay within dimension constraints at all times and don't really "grapple" onto the trailer.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by eNyoron

What if you were to construct your robot in such a way that it can reach into the trailer while staying within the 28 by 38 bounds? For example, what if the robot was 28 by 14 and had a two foot extendable arm that knocked balls out of the trailer?

In this regard, the rules seem to be vague, since you stay within dimension constraints at all times and don't really "grapple" onto the trailer.

De-scoring is never a good strategy in FIRST, try to steer your design towards ways to score and play the game with GP. Also before you commit to having a de-scoring game plan for your robot wait for the first few rule updates because usually de-scoring is something they cover quite early in the updates

[GGCO]

Originally Posted by MiniNerd24

Question. According to those rules you can't attach or grapple the opponent or trailer... nor can you touch anywhere bu the bumpers... so can you lift them up using their bumpers or is that a form of grappling?

Someone will have to confirm this (ie quote the manual), but I know that my team was talking about this during our brainstorming session. The answer is no. I know that it say in the manual (idk where though..) that a robot cannot pick up a robot.

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by MiniNerd24

Question. According to those rules you can't attach or grapple the opponent or trailer... nor can you touch anywhere bu the bumpers... so can you lift them up using their bumpers or is that a form of grappling?

B. Contact within the BUMPER ZONE is generally acceptable.
C. If a portion of the BUMPER PERIMETER polygon is unprotected by BUMPERS, any
contact by another ROBOT within the unprotected region (including the vertical
projection of the unprotected region) will be considered incidental contact and will not be
penalized.

according to the above it shouldn't be a form of grappling

Originally Posted by eNyoron

What if you were to construct your robot in such a way that it can reach into the trailer while staying within the 28 by 38 bounds? For example, what if the robot was 28 by 14 and had a two foot extendable arm that knocked balls out of the trailer?

In this regard, the rules seem to be vague, since you stay within dimension constraints at all times and don't really "grapple" onto the trailer.

Well Yes but if you reach to the trailer, then you are going outside your bumper zone, the trailer's bumpers aren't considered apart of the robot's bumper zone so you would be violating:

E. Contact outside of the BUMPER ZONE is not acceptable, and will result in a PENALTY.
The offending ROBOT may be disqualified from the MATCH if the offense is particularly
egregious or if it results in substantial damage to another ROBOT.

[pfreivald]

If you cannot

A. extend past your maximum dimensions <R11>

AND

B. contact another robot or trailer outside the bumper zone,<G32,E>

how do you intend to remove the balls from a trailer (theirs or yours)?

Patrick

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by MiniNerd24

Question. According to those rules you can't attach or grapple the opponent or trailer... nor can you touch anywhere bu the bumpers... so can you lift them up using their bumpers or is that a form of grappling?

Actually if you read farther down:

<G33> ROBOT Entanglement – Entangled ROBOTS will be disabled if attempts to disengage are
causing damage or a dangerous situation. If it is determined that a ROBOT intentionally
entangles an opposing ROBOT, the offending ROBOT will be disqualified. If, due to loose
cables, hoses, cords, etc., a ROBOT unintentionally but routinely entangles another ROBOT
as a result of normal game interaction, the ROBOT may be disqualified. The TEAM will be
required to repair the entangling elements before the ROBOT will be permitted to participate
in subsequent MATCHES.

So be careful basically

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

If you cannot

A. extend past your maximum dimensions <R11>

AND

B. contact another robot or trailer outside the bumper zone,<G32,E>

how do you intend to remove the balls from a trailer (theirs or yours)?

Patrick

I don't think you can, or are supposed to do to the fact they say if a trailer is knocked over and the balls are nocked out then the points are still that teams.

[sayso_411]

Alright so long story short: unlike previous years you cannot go outside specified dimensions after the start of the game and trying to take the ball out of a trailer would probably be contact outside of the bumper zone

[Eric O]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

If you cannot

A. extend past your maximum dimensions <R11>

AND

B. contact another robot or trailer outside the bumper zone,<G32,E>

how do you intend to remove the balls from a trailer (theirs or yours)?

Patrick

Neither of these rules applies to the situation described. If the robot stays within the 28x38x60 box, and is able to pull out a scoring object I see it as legal. G32, E says nothing about the trailer.

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by Eric O

Neither of these rules applies to the situation described. If the robot stays within the 28x38x60 box, and is able to pull out a scoring object I see it as legal. G32, E says nothing about the trailer.

But it won't count as unscoring since tipping over the trailer does not unscore your points