Answered: Clarification on Hanging

[PatrickD]

I believe a comment i made on the “Ultra-High Hanging” thread may have been viewed as too general. I would like to know whether or not, at the VRC Championship, will pushing down on a robot that is attempting to pull itself up be considered legal?

[Karthik]

@PatrickD

I believe a comment i made on the “Ultra-High Hanging” thread may have been viewed as too general. I would like to know whether or not, at the VRC Championship, will pushing down on a robot that is attempting to pull itself up be considered legal?

Let’s take a look at the applicable rule, <SG5>

<SG5> VEX Round Up is a highly interactive game. Contact, ramming and tipping is especially likely to occur on the ladder as part of normal game play. Robots should be designed accordingly as these interactions on the ladder would not fall under <G11>. However, intentional entanglement is still not permitted on the ladder.

The rule states that contact, ramming and tipping are likely to occur on the ladder. So, in most cases pushing down upon a robot would be legal. However, if the pushing down is so forceful that it causes the two robots to become entangled, the robot doing the pushing down would now be in violation of <SG5>.