Scoring Legal?

1193Z · December 10, 2019, 10:23pm

Would this be legal? I’m thinking so since the bottom two faces are flat on the tile, and all other cubes are stacked.

kevjar · December 10, 2019, 10:31pm

Heres what the official rulebook has to say:

Stacked Cube - A Cube status. A Cube is considered a Stacked Cube if it meets the following
criteria at the end of the Match:

Contacting the Top Surface of a Base Cube or Stacked Cube.
Not contacting the top of the field perimeter wall.
Not contacting the Top Surface of any Cubes which are not Scored.

I don’t see anything that would make that illegal

This would be really hard to pull off in a match though

Laakea · December 10, 2019, 10:38pm

if its not supported by the field perimeter I don’t see why it wouldn’t be legal just difficult to pull off since your robot would have to be specifically designed to do this

SaltyCB · December 11, 2019, 2:18am

Someone needs to put this in the Q/A because if this becomes legal DR4B’s are going to be better

Xenon27 · December 11, 2019, 2:25am

This is legal. No Q&A needed, all the cubes meet the definition of being stacked, therefore they are all stacked. Its impractically hard for robots to do this though.

roboticblackbelt · December 11, 2019, 2:26am

There is no becoming legal. This has been legal it is just not a viable stacking strategy. Unless you somehow make a robot to specifically do this getting the spacing for the bottom cubes right and placing the upper stacks at the perfect spot where they don’t tip is basically impossible for a normal DR4B robot.