Robots Tipping Over

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by EricH

Yet it's a bit more exciting when a robot is about to go down and doesn't, or goes down and gets back up...

And back on topic, I don't remember a single robot tipping this year.

Agreed, I remember in 2005 2 cases where tipping was an interesting occurrence for us. First was when we got knocked over and actually bounced off our arm and came right back up (it was designed to be able to right us should we tip) The other was when 33 brought their arm down on top of a tetra we were holding by accident (they were on our alliance) Instead of losing the tetra 33 was pulled sideways and onto the ground. It showed how good a grip we had on the tetra.

And no, I saw a lot of hard hits but no tipping. As opposed to last year, I saw lots of robots on 2 wheels going around corners and several on no wheels after a failed hurdle.

One last thing, plenty of robots put funny stickers on the bottom explaining that if you can see this something bad happened. On a related note, in 2004 RUSH had a sticker about if you can read this we are hanging.