[czeke]

He was saying that the entire assembly is not considered to be contiguous. As I understood it, the leading edge, was in motion ( the polycord belts ). When I asked him " What if we covered it, with a Lexan cover ?" , then he responded, saying that he would favor our argument. Either way, it isn't a very clear rule, and it seriously effected us, to the point where, we abondoned our strategy of reaching out for balls, and had to redesign that system. He also stated, that it would be up to the head referee, to make that determination. It's sort of a rotten way to incur a penalty, by not clarifying the rules. In another related system, our ball thrower, uses a rotating turret. When the turret rotates, say about 30-45 degrees, our CIM motor, breaks the plane of the frame perimeter, on the left side and our spinning wheels break the front plane of the frame perimeter. That's two appendages sticking out, not one, as we had thought. We were once again illegal. The only good thing was, that we found out two days before bag-n-tag, and we could correct it.