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Re: Team Update #6

Less technically creative teams will look to solve the problem with an NXT brick; however I can think of several dozen solutions that don't involve an NXT brick. If costs and/or weight are an issue, think harder.

The rule states "without special equipment". I assume a Bazooka is special, but perhaps a 5 foot stick is not. Nonetheless, the solutions I mentioned above don't involve any equipment for retrieval.

Defensive bots will just need to stay further away from the opposing Zones to avoid penalties. Especially those that can be pushed. But if your defendabot can't be pushed, that lets you get a lot closer. The yellow lines show that GDC considered this, and have now clarified and raised the ante for those who flaunt it.

I'm not going to lawyer anything, BUT if you really want clarity, the GDC shall further consider sentence structure. This example is somewhat less ambiguous:
Quote:
[a] Neither ROBOTS, HOSTBOTS, nor MINIBOTS (including a GAME PIECE in their POSSESSION) may break any plane of the vertically projected borders of the opponent’s ZONES.
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