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Re: 2012 Team Update 4

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli View Post
This update is actually pretty important. The blue box at the end has really clarified the "stick something out the bottom of your robot to help balancing" as being perfectly legal. The Q&A responses this week made it look like it would be illegal.

Now, if you are on the bridge and you stick something down to the carpet it can be argued via the blue box clarification that your bumpers are perfectly legal as measured from the bridge that you are sitting on. Big clarification.
I think you're misreading that. I think your configuration would be illegal because if the bot were placed flat on the bridge or carpet your bumpers would not be entirely in the zone.
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