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Re: Amusing Rule Inconsistency - Are All Robots Illegal?

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I believe an unintended consequence of last Friday's Team Update is that it is now actually impossible to build a legal ROBOT that meets the definition of all of the rules. Obviously this isn't the intent of the GDC, and despite how the rules literally read it will never be enforced like this, but I thought it was kind of funny if nothing else.

Consider the change to the definition of ROBOT (change in bold):


So BUMPERS are now part of the definition of ROBOT. What does this mean? Consider R4:



So if BUMPERS are part of the ROBOT, but if no part of the ROBOT shall extend outside the FRAME PERIMETER, then BUMPERS cannot be outside the FRAME PERIMETER, right? However, numerous BUMPER rules and the definition of BUMPER require the BUMPER to be rigidly mounted to the FRAME PERIMETER, and are thus contained outside of it.

So because of these contradicting rules, I don't actually think it's possible to legally build a robot! It both must have bumpers outside of the frame perimeter, yet no part of the robot can extend past the frame perimeter in starting configuration. Again, clearly this isn't a real issue, and is just an amusing inconsistency, so I'm mainly bringing this up to see if other, similar, more worrisome inconsistencies were created with this change. And also to hopefully inspire a good chuckle during a stressful part of build season.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, as a LRI, I will not reject a team for having bumpers outside of the frame perimeter. I don't think it was the intention of the GDC to outlaw all robots.

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