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Originally posted by Jnadke
Your analogy is severely flawed.
What if a robot is pushing their arms on the HDPE? There's no reason for the limbo blockers to be there in this case, but it will put them at a severe advantage because their arms can't move (let's forget about the thick treads... pretend the TechnoKats are pushing against them). We all know the arms will react with the playing field in TWO places, one for each arm. Therefore, they are reacting with multiple playing field surfaces, which is a clear violation of the rules.
Remember, there are 2 arms on the robot, so both are going to react with the field, that's what I'm trying to point out. It violates the "pushing against multiple surfaces" rule.
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I believe if you read your rules again you will find that you are mistaken when they discuss touching multiple surfaces. How about a robot that is both on the wire mess and the carpet? Touching more than one playing field surface. There is a ruling on multiple surfaces, I will give you that. I am not in front of a set of rules however I believe the way the rules are stated is that you may not touch more than one surface of the midfield barrier. You can argue how to define a surface however since the pipe is round, if we were pushed into the bar, the arm would be tangent to the round bar and this is what I would define as one surface. You can only argue this point if you blam us for what other robots do to us. Read this set of rules carefully and I think you will find what I am getting at.