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I think it's apparent what the whole 'reacting against' deal is supposed to mean:
If you are using something designed to stop another bot from getting under the bar that comes in contact with it to do so, it is disallowed. Sure, you can say, 'well what about the frame of a robot?' Use common sense: how would you rule? If a bot is pushing against another bot that is too tall to pass under, it's just an inadvertant design flaw (or maybe it was meant to do that... but it just causes the bot to get stuck in midfield). I think they will rule on the intent of the design.
And as far as the entire build thing goes... wouldn't it just be more fair to stop all building the Wednesday before the first set of regionals and then allow the teams to build from Thursday of their regional through the next Wednesday?
It would've been nice if they had specified post-ship build rules earlier on.
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