I'm thinking that FIRST, in their desire to improve clarity, forgot to include a line that's usually in that rule, which specifically barred anything that was intended to give the HP an advantage.
But, if someone DID build a noodle cannon into their operator console, and it was effective... As it stands, that would be a very interesting workaround to the rules.
However... I do think that there is one way it could be ruled illegal.
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Originally Posted by Section 6
OPERATOR CONSOLE – the set of COMPONENTS and MECHANISMS used by the DRIVERS and/or HUMAN PLAYER to relay commands to
the ROBOT.
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I would suspect that, if push came to shove, the GDC would argue that the noodle launcher was not used to relay commands to the robot, or as support for the devices that do, and thus should not be part of the Operator Console. Then you'd be bringing something into the station that didn't fit into the list of exceptions. (Trust me, they've used far more convoluted rulings in the past to rule stuff illegal that was otherwise legal.)
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