[rich2202]

Well, the rule change clarified whether you can touch the floor and bar 2 at the same time - Not!

Another scenario:

The bar is at the top of a level. When you grab on the bar, part of your apparatus is above the bar, and in the higher level. Since it is not touching the pyramid above the bar, that is not a problem.

Issue:

What if you are grabbing at the corner? Or, if you want to grab the corner? Then, you will come into contact with a portion of the vertical pole that is above the horizontal bar.

Question:

Is there a portion of the vertical pole, immediately above the bar, that can considered part of the lower zone if another portion of the robot it touching the pyramid in the lower zone?

If you are below the bar, then you want to be able to grab the corner and climb up, and incidentally be contacting the pyramid in the higher zone. Similarly, you could be a fraction of an inch above the lower bar, be contacting the vertical bar a fraction of an inch above the corner, grabbing onto the next higher bar, and should be considered as touching the higher zone (not touching any other part of the pyramid in the lower zone).

It would be helpful to allow the 5 inches (or whatever nominal amount) of the vertical pole above a corner to be considered part of the lower zone if the robot is touching any other part of the pyramid in the lower zone. Or, for purposes of the 2 zone rule, the 5 inches of the vertical pole immediately above a corner is considered to be in whichever zone (actual zone, or immediately lower zone) that is most advantageous for the robot.