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Re: Vex "Gateway" 2011-2012 VRC Game

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Originally Posted by pwnageNick View Post
I don't feel like opening up my manuel cause I'm lazy ( ) but I think basically if you're robot wasn't able to move at the beginning of the match you can reach in and ix the battery/cord/cpu/etc. to get it to run as long as its touching your colored mat tile (which if it wasn't moving should not be a problem). Whether they covered it in the rules or not, VEX won't allow people to walk onto the field to fix a robot or anything crazy like that. I think they basically added this because they were tired of seeing matches go to a waste because teams couldn't move. As far as discussion that has been going on so far about whether this could be like FLL where you add and subtract "attachments", I don't believe that will work because (once again, paraphrasing cause I'm lazy) the definition of a robot is anything brought to the field that is not a controller or person. So you can't keep attachments with you to put on later; at least the way I'm interpreting it.
The manual says that people can reach in and adjust something on the robot provided it hasn't moved out the starting area.

Hope that clears up part of the confusion.
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