My Favorite rule. :)

Competition Rules/Strategy
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I like rule # S10 “The only projectile alowed is the BIN, TUB, CONTAINER, CAN” Yup… I love that rule… INCOMING!!!

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yeah, thats cool. they break easily though, is there a rule against breaking the bins???

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Projectiles… mmmmm…

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yes there is a rule about that, i dont know exactly what it is but i remember it dealt with the top of the bin coming off…i think it might mean DQ but dont quote me on that

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yeah, thats cool. they break easily though, is there a rule against breaking the bins???

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I think it goes under destruction of the playing field, and is automatic DQ. Here we go, DQ7 states that if any part of your robot damages the playing field that the referees can disqualify you. Hope that Helps

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Yea I think the wording of that rule is such that if you are intentionally removeing the lids your DQ ed

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*Originally posted by magnasmific *
**yeah, thats cool. they break easily though, is there a rule against breaking the bins??? **

Yes. If you do it intentionally, you get DQ’d.
See: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15783

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but if your robot breaks them…you also get dq’d. i don’t think its very smart to be launching them anyways…

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what happens if a robot happened to be in the way and it got pelted…real hard?

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Probably wouldn’t do much damage. If the bins are as light as they look, they won’t fly very well.

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this is going to be a major problem this year. today at the kick off there were two already broken just in the demonstration that they did. i talked to woody and he expects to go through a lot of them.

Tyler

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*Originally posted by TF8 *
**this is going to be a major problem this year. today at the kick off there were two already broken just in the demonstration that they did. i talked to woody and he expects to go through a lot of them.

Tyler **

at least they’re cheap

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*Originally posted by Aignam *
**Probably wouldn’t do much damage. If the bins are as light as they look, they won’t fly very well. **

They are rather light, but they fly fairly well.

They were about $4 a piece at a local Walmart (San Jose, CA), and Jason Morrella was selling his personal stash at $5 a piece at the San Jose State University remote kickoff.

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but is there not always a chance that the container take out like an arm or something? though unlikely, how would the ruling be if you broke somethin of the other teams’?

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*Originally posted by Aignam *
**Probably wouldn’t do much damage. If the bins are as light as they look, they won’t fly very well. **

Have you seen the damage the bins can do? we broke our light just knocing the stack over.

I will try to get a picture of our blue shield and post it.