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Don’t clamp your Robot to the field. Robots may not intentionally grasp, grapple, or attach to any Field Elements. Strategies with mechanisms that react against multiple sides of a Field Element in an effort to latch or clamp onto said Field Element are prohibited. The intent of this rule is to prevent Teams from both unintentionally damaging the field and/or from anchoring themselves to the field. Note: An Alliance’s own Elevation Bars and Match Load Bars are exceptions to this rule, i.e., there is no penalty for clamping onto them.

Violation Notes: Major Violations of this rule should be rare, as Robots should never be designed to intentionally violate it.