I’ve seen other matches with teams doing this and I was confused as to why? Can anyone point me into the right direction I’m thinking of implementing this into my team’s bot if this is a good strategy.
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Tipping mobile goals in corners: due to the definition of “in a corner”, a tipped mobile goal is not considered scored in a corner. Hence, defensive robots would want to tip mobile goals to prevent them from being counted as “in the corner” (like preventing an opposing team from scoring in the positive corner or prevent one of their own mobile goals from being scored in the negative corner)
Tipping mobile goals on the field: due to the way most mobile goal clamps work, robots can’t grab onto tipped goals. Hence, to prevent a filled goal from being stolen and put in the negative corner, an offensive team will tip their goal.
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To do this though you would need a doinker mech, it is really simple my team built it using a simple piston attached a channel with polycarb at the end and when extended we moved the bot left and right to knock the mogo down. Another strat a lot of teams do is that when the mogos are knocked over then knock it back up and go and place it in the negative corner.
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Teams only really tip goals over towards the end of the game and most of the time it’s their own goal that they’re tipping.
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The main reason I’ve seen it is to make it more annoying for the other team to move. Yes it can be moved but its harder for them to put it in the negative if its already over. Here is Luke from 2029C breaking it down
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does anyone have a video on how to build one?
have yall seen the 360 lady browns thé chinese teams made to des core + tip mobile goals 
No one will give you a video with instructions. There are plenty of videos on YouTube that show these robots, so you can take inspiration from them.
you can use a doinker mechanism
the basic rundown is that is a c channel that in on a hinge, then pneumatics pushes it down, so it is sticking out of the robot like an arm. Then you drive and swing the arm at the goal to tip it.