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Originally Posted by RamZ
Could someone explain what this means?
What I picked up is that if you start in the goalie zone (at least in auto), you cannot leave the goalie zone.
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Basically the verbiage change allows for a robot that's too large to be 'entirely' within the goalie zone to start in the goalie zone, and or expand outside of it, as long as they don't touch the carpet. The same can be said for starting in the white zone as well, as the rules were previously written, a robot couldn't have any part of itself extending outside of the white zone, where as not it cannot touch anything outside of the white zone.
Realistically, the change allows more robots to start in the goalie zone, and/or allows for a few more inches of adjustment in regards to starting positions in autonomous. For example, if you had a robot that missed a shot because it was say, 4 inches too far back, you could now start the robot up 4" more, as long as you don't touch the carpet outside of the white zone. There's also bit more room to play with robot to robot alignment where an inch or two could be the difference between helping a partner score or not.