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Originally Posted by Cash4587

I am pretty sure you cannot break the plane of the landfill at all before the match. As far as I know the Landfill is a three dimensional space in which you may not cross until Autonomous STARTS.

Just so everyone is clear. I am positive this is not grabbing Recycling containers from the step.

Their entire design is about grabbing 2 of the 3 RC that are STAGING ZONE, lifting them up so that someone can make a 6 stack and push it under the lifted up RC's, then at the end of the match they set them down.

This is in no way a "Can Grabber". It is an RC capper that uses exactly 2 of the 3 RC's from the staging zone.

Originally Posted by DanielPlotas

Oh. I see now. I thought you guys were pulling cans off the step. I still don't think they will be legal, unfortunately. I can't cite a specific rule, but I believe that if a team like 148 had such an elaborate mechanism designed specifically to keep their robot from touching the cans pre-match, that there is little to no doubt about the legality of such a system.

148's ruling was not at all based on them touching the can's pre-match. Look up 2826 Wave Robotics robot to see that it is indeed legal to touch RC's prior to the match start.