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Re: 2nd Most Awaited Q and A Answer?

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Originally Posted by Justin Montois View Post
I know this has been hashed to death but intent of the rule is clear. You can only have one "thing" outside your frame perimeter at a time. If something is extended out the front, say to manipulate the ramp, nothing can be extended out of the back or sides at the same time. And you can only extend that "thing" up to 14".

I honestly think that when writing the rules, the GDC didn't want to use the word "arm" to define the "thing" so they settled on "appendage".

Any team that has designed within these constraints should be fine. Should be.
The intent of the original rule is very obvious. A robot can only deploy one appendage at a time over one edge of the frame perimeter.

The Q&A responses are what are being debated. The GDC has now said that an all parts of an appendage need to be contiguous at all times.
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