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Unread 22-03-2016, 17:04
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Re: Your tall opaque robot is now illegal

I just can't see how FIRST can implement a rule (or in this case Q+A response, which is really just a rule) that talks about intent. You could lie through your face to the LRI about how your intent for your large 3 feet long piece of plywood was just to catch the wind of other robots moving to help you move faster, but on the field it could block 118's camera which is mounted at the front of their robot - how does anyone make that call? Does 118 go to the Head Ref to ask for the plywood to go away? Then your robot can't play defense! Must all defensive robots have completely 100% transparent non-vision blocking, non-light refracting, borderless pieces of glass on their robots to comply with the vision blockage rule? What if 118 also uses a LIDAR or ultrasonic sensor to judge distance-to-goal? Then any defensive piece of equipment that blocks 118's shooter is illegal, right? I mean, it also blocks the sensing capabilities of that robot!

So many unanswerable questions, so many events already played.
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