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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
It took a little analysis but the new rule does help
First and the biggest thing.... is that UNLESS a robot is reaching over the side of the field.... a human player can use the entire zone up to the field edge. You can't reach in at any time but you can extend right up to it.
The limitation occurs when you have an adjacent robot that is REACHING OVER the side line. THEN if the robot is close you cannot enter the Safety Zone.
This means that if your robot is sitting in front of you and NOT extended outside the field you can reach up to the side line (but not onto the field)
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This is pretty important, basically the SAFETY ZONE only comes into play when a robot is hanging outside of the field. It basically goes back to the way the rules were originally written and adds that, if a robot reaches outside the field WITHOUT incurring a penalty (specifically stated as something you should not do) you can no longer reach up to the GUARDRAIL. In that case, you have to obey the SAFETY ZONE.