No-show teams and trailers

[Rick Wagner]

It will be interesting to see if the answer comes tomorrow on Q&A. Even if the tongue has no sharp edges, robots can run up on it or in a worst case scenario, the trailer gets tilted back for a second and a robot gets impaled on the tongue. The suggestion above, to remove the tongue for safety, seems to me to be workable. Removing the entire trailer, as has been pointed out, is apparently unworkable from a game dynamics viewpoint.

Perhaps the best solution, ultimately, will be to introduce a special tongueless trailer with a third wheel (no caster necessary, I think), just for the case of no-show robots. That means building extra trailers or modifying existing ones in realtime during the competitions.