[Jon Stratis]

As Allen said, this was discussed at LRI Training, and the 78" dimension is supposed to be perpendicular to the floor while transporting your robot. That's why the rule specifies a "height". The robot can be 78" long and 42" tall when on the playing field, but then when moving around the venue it need to be propped up. To use an analogy, we might say that a niornal automobile is 5' or 6' tall and 12' long. Those descriptions of the car don't change if we stand it up on its bumper, but the car will then fit inside an envelop that is 12' tall and 6' long.

This issue with the transport configuration is going to be an interesting one at some venues. At Lake Superior, for example, there are nice tall ceilings everywhere and it should be easy to roll around tall robots. 10,000 Lakes, in the other hand, requires robots to travel through hallways, doors, and even a locker room to go back and forth. We counted 7 openings of 82" or less that are likely to cause problems for teams that didn't think ahead.