[Gary Dillard]

Question answered:

A. Sorry for the continued confusion. "Tall" means in relation to a horizontal plane. Think of the TRANSPORT CONFIGURATION as a featureless box with no obvious top or bottom. Imagine setting this box on the floor. The side touching the floor becomes the bottom, the opposite face becomes the top. The distance between the top and bottom is how "tall" the box is, and it can't exceed 78 in.

Hmmmm. If you consider T6:

The intent of T6 and the TRANSPORT CONFIGURATION is to make sure that the absence of footprint size restrictions for a ROBOT in the 2015 season does not result in large, unwieldy ROBOTS being pushed through crowded pits. ROBOT parts occasionally transported outside of the TRANSPORT CONFIGURATION will be overlooked, e.g. a battery, cable ties, Ethernet cords, etc.

What about large, unwieldy carts? I couldn't find a rule against having a 78 inch long (or longer) cart being pushed through crowded pits.

Anyway, I'm bummed by the answer but thrilled that the GDC is taking time to explain decisions in the Q&A instead of "because we said so" in previous years, so I'll stop pleading my case. I did, however, ask a related question:

Follow up to Q69 regarding rule G9, R3 allows the use additional aids such as bungee cords in order to meet the Transport Configuration size constraints. Are we allowed to bring these aids onto the field? If our additional aid is a 28 x 42 inch rigid frame as opposed to something flexible such as bungee cords, can we bring it onto the field so that we can meet the requirements of G9 and G10 while configuring to meet rule R3?