This would not be necessary though as in the drone section (which is necessary if additional restrictions are to be placed on them) it would be specifically documented that a drone which has not made contact with another machine should be considered out.DieGracefullyRobotics wrote: ↑Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:35 am "All subsequent parts of a clusterbot must be eliminated for that robot to be considered out, unless one of the components is a drone in which case the drone will only count as part of a cluster if it has made contact with the opponent before either robot is pushed off"
But there is an alternative, probably better approach: drones are allowed in any fashion, counted as full robots, contact rules etc all forgotten.
The fact is, if two or more drones were entered (bearing in mind it's ~30GBP per drone if built from scratch in accordance with existing rules, close enough to a full antweight), that entry would likely (at worst) take the competition 2 3 minute fights with rather exciting ways of attempting to beat a full antweight, in which case if they have been useless then they shall lose both decisions and the tournament continues on.
The cost of the drones would be astronomical if they were to be built to be competitive and so we are very unlikely to ever see it. That side of things would regulate itself as long as we maintain the ban on off the shelf drones (which is already in place anyway) due to the size limit and the cost.
Touching the bottom of a pit, exactly the same as when spinners become airbourne.