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Airzooka

Is there anything in the rules that prevents a team from using airzookas to knock other frisbees out from the sidelines?
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Re: Airzooka

Im sure there is a rule that we cant throw objects, but what about air?
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Re: Airzooka

I sometimes forget this is a forum with a lot of high schoolers, and I sometimes forget how bad they are at trolling....
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Re: Airzooka

No. Just no.

That's not even taking advantage of the rules, that's just playing dirty.
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Re: Airzooka

There are rules about what the drive team can have during a match. This is not one of the allowed items.
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Re: Airzooka

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There are rules about what the drive team can have during a match. This is not one of the allowed items.
I think the troll meant standing in the stands as a spectator.
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Re: Airzooka

It's that little quoted rule, 3.14.1, that requires all competitions to conform to the laws of physics.

It might be worth trying at the Hogwarts' Academy off-season event, where 3.14.1 is normally waived.

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Please note that 3.14.1 also specifically disallows helping robots to climb by "jumping up and down really hard" in the stands, and using divine intervention to improve autonomous mode.

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Re: Airzooka

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I sometimes forget this is a forum with a lot of high schoolers, and I sometimes forget how bad they are at trolling....
I hope you are using the term "they" loosely.

This was a pretty bad troll...
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Re: Airzooka

The game is meant to be played by the humans and robots that are on the field and no one else. Duh. Other illegal acts from the sidelines include:
  1. Jamming a robot's radio
  2. Blinding a driver with a portable skylight
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I propose that before anyone uses the "it's just air" excuse, they must explain the difference between sniping a frisbee with a puff of air, versus a well placed blunted arrow. And if they still want to argue "it's just air", then we toss them in a 75mph wind tunnel for 30 minutes or so. I mean, it's just air, it's not like it's really doing anything.
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Re: Airzooka

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I hope you are using the term "they" loosely.

This was a pretty bad troll...
They dont have trolls in canada right? I thought they were abominable snowmen up there?
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They dont have trolls in canada right? I thought they were abominable snowmen up there?
Nope just polar bears and friendly moose.
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Re: Airzooka

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Nope just polar bears and friendly moose.
I don't know. The whole Quebec PastaGate thing really seems like an epic bit of trolling if you ask me.
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Re: Airzooka

For more serious discussion: Would it be legal to mount a device on a robot to do this? Would it be moral?
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For more serious discussion: Would it be legal to mount a device on a robot to do this? Would it be moral?
Yes and yes. No different than teams using fans in '09 (and this year from what I've heard).
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For more serious discussion: Would it be legal to mount a device on a robot to do this? Would it be moral?
That's definitely both legal and moral. It isn't stretching any rules.

OP:
What if you just get your whole team to blow REALLY hard at the opposing alliance?
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