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Q. To what extent can parts of the robot contact the midfield barrier?
Jan 23rd
A. GM 28 prohibits "attachment". GM31 allows incidental contact. A trip device to lower or displace the rotating beacon is allowed as long as the lower bar itself is not used to force the light down to get under the bar. Any intentional hard contact with the midfield barrier is prohibited. The midfield bar was not intended to support or furnish a reaction surface for the robots. It is intended to demarcate the midfield and prevent containers from being slid from one side of the field to the other.
Jan 20 (diff, but similar question)
A. See Rule GM31. You can touch the midfield barrrier but you cannot react off of it. You can step over it. you can go under it. If, in wrapping around the pipe barrier you rely on it for support, you will be penalized.
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For the first one: the contact with the bar will be incidental on the part of our robot. If another team pushes us into it, there is a major difference. We are not intentionally doing anything it will be other teams on the field that make us touch it.
For the second one: we are not wrapping around, the maximum that our robot will ever touch is on one side and that is the result of another team pushing into it.
Hard words coming out.....