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Originally Posted by nicholsjj
The rules are not special to any individual team design. All teams had the manual and determined how to play the game. Teams like 1986, 610, and 2056 have no issue with this particular "blockkade" so why should the rule be called any different for teams that can't shrink under 29 inches. We designed our robot to be able to climb and stick out to max dimensions so that we could play some off hand defense. I think this year refs will be put in an undesirable spot just like what happened to OP.
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This. It is crazy that some teams get additional benefits because of arguably poor design decisions (all else equal, I think most would agree being less than 28 is better than greater than 28). This is similar to top heavy robots getting calls for being tipped when similar defense won't tip a better designed robot.
I recall this rule from 2011 and maybe last year. Has it ever been called previously?