Crushing Balls?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by LoveMe_HateMe

If we crushed the moon rocks with out trying do you think it would count againist us since it is part of the arena??

If you're destroying game pieces left and right, you're doin' it wrong. There's probably a much more effective way to do the task at hand that doesn't break game pieces. Orbit Balls are pretty hardy.

Our rookie year (2004) all of the game pieces were inflatable, and we popped one (or two ). Each time we got a talking to, and we worked really hard to fix the issue. If your mechanism goes crazy and eats a ball over the course of a regional, no biggie. But if the referees are consistently pulling plastic shards out of their hair when your robot drives by, they'll take issue.

So, if "without trying" means once in a blue moon, the referees are human too (except Benji Ambrogi, he's some sort of superhuman) and they realize this stuff happens. But if the mechanism destroys a ball regularly, you'll have to change it.