Overdrive Defensive build idea

for this years end game I was thinking of having a nuematics system that shoots out at the end to hold me in place since I might make a small bot basically it’ll just be two pieces of metal one on each side with mesh on them and i just press a button and they shoot out onto the ground not digging into it and I just chill there would this be possible and if it is will it be a god strat

thanks in advance :+1:

I don’t quite understand how it would hold you in place. Maybe send a cad design. Next time I would try it out before asking people if it would be good. If you and your team think it might work then do it.

Your pieces of metal going into the ground would not work. There would be no way that those could hold the robot still without digging into the tiles.

If there is one on each side wouldn’t it tip if you were pushed?

Literally, I had the same exact idea, I haven’t tested it yet but I think it has some good potential. The question will be can you not harm the field tiles, and I think this will be a yes, if the mech is built right.

Can you read minds? Our teams was literally planning to do this exact thing

They wouldn’t dig into the tiles because there just to add extra friction to the robot to make it harder to move

Idk if there is some sort of rule agianst that, you should check. Second, how exactly would that work, without digging into the ground, pretty sure your robot wont be string enough to hold in place, if u just use mesh. I also dont think it’s worth it. Pheunamatics just for that???(i mean i might just be dumb, and you being a genius). Second if you do that, it’ll take longer time to undo the metal bars and move, which is a disadvantage because the other team will get space to do driveling that might help them win. So yeah, that might work though, i might be dumb, so yeah, just try what u want to do. And two bars might not be good(four might work better).