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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
While I don't have anything to prove this, I suspect that's why they picked 112" - 112/4 = 28", which was the old limit to account for common door widths. This doesn't take into account creative robots with less than 4 sides though (a round robot, for example, could hit 35" in diamater!)
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Correct. This year I have observed a few round robots, 1 hexagon, and many "triangular" corner climbers that potentially had issues going through a standard doorway. I liked that it was the perogative of the team to decide how they wanted their bot to look, and all of the robots I saw found a way to make it through standard doors, but many of the odd shapes required tilting to make it through the more narrow doorways. Had they also made those robots tall, they may have had a real problem (which is why I suggested a reminder as opposed to a rule).