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Re: 3 position cylinders

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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04 View Post
This was my thought process as well. I have taken the approach that I need to expend my energy working on a solution rather than railing at the lack of sense the GDC is making. Rules are rules after all. My team would have been much better off if we had read the rules better at the beginning of the year. Oh, well...
Reading the rules at the beginning of the season would have still lead you to the original assumption that 3 port center port closed was legal. The ruling was made 01-31-2011, 02:05 PM http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=16642 to make them illegal in the FIRST Forum Q & A. Team 2221 designed their robot after reading the original rules and had to add additional cylinders to meet the rule change.