Competitions ramp up for us in January and February - our state championship isn’t until early March
We must start pretty early then.
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I was just wondering because I saw 929 with anti-tips and they seemed kinda excessive.
Well that’s just because they have a small base. In their case, it’s probably necessary.
Besides, tipping can be useful. We totally tipped in the quarterfinals onto somebodies stack just this Saturday. It was great. I also yelled at our driver. A lot.
Depends on your robot, and what capabilities you want. Some robots are at a very low risk of tipping. It May prevent you from scoring in the 20, or at least crossing the bar. For example last year, when we used our anti-tips we could not hang because it stopped the necessary tilting of the robot.
You could springload your antitip.
How would that work?
Rubber bands causing the antitip to shoot out the back, making more room for you to get over the pipe. Totally not worth the time necessary, though.
Towards the beginning of the season I tipped on purpose once to reach the parking square… still lost.
If you tip over at the end of the match to reach the parking square, would you get DQ’d for being over 36"?
Nah, they’d feel too sorry for you for breaking your bot.
Last year we had an anti-tip that essentially doubled the length of the robot, but it was only necessary because we had a lot of momentum catapulting the robot backwards. This year, with light lifts and no appreciable front-back momentum from lifts, the best solution is driver practice IMO.
Buuuuut breaking the rules to score would eliminate those points, especially if they were match affecting.
Ok they probably would if it was match affecting but most of the time if you tip you lose, unless you have an amazing partner.