We’re wondering if we can have the rung essentially go into the robot. I definitely feel this is legal because we have to grab the rung anyway, but we wanted to be sure that if we were to climb, we could have an indent in our robot that the run could go into to give extra space underneath the robot.
To my understanding there is no rule that prohibits this
The only thing to be careful about not having any part of your robot above the bar thats 1ft above the rung.
Even going above that is OK, just that the HANDLE is the only part of the Field Generator exempt from G26 A, B, C, & G.
G26. Be careful what you interact with. ROBOTS and OPERATOR CONSOLES are prohibited from the following actions with regards to interaction with ARENA elements. Items A – C exclude POWER CELLS, HANDLE, and the ALLIANCE’S CONTROL PANEL. Item G excludes the HANDLE.
- A. Grabbing
- B. Grasping
- C. Attaching (including the use of hook tape to anchor to the FIELD carpet and excluding use of the PLAYER STATION hook-and-loop tape, plugging in to the provided power outlet, and plugging the provided Ethernet cable into the OPERATOR CONSOLE)
- D. Deforming
- E. Becoming Entangled
- F. Damaging
- G. Suspending from
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