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Originally Posted by Akash Shah
I had a quick questions about how a robot can handle a gear. So according to the rule manual, a robot is not allowed to launch or shoot a gear. How would one define that a robot is shooting a gear? Would it be that it is in the air or would shooting still count if the gear is sliding across the floor (maintaining full contact with the carpet)? Also, would rolling a gear be considers shooting/launching? This may be a strange questions but just wanted to know what someone outside of our team thinks about this rule. Thank you for all the input!
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Definition of Launching (from Section 11, but also found in Section 7 in one of the blue boxes--G23's if I remember right):
"LAUNCHING
shooting in the air, kicking or rolling across the floor with an active mechanism, or throwing in a forceful way"
Funny how
all the actions you list are in the definition, and thus a violation of G24 (and thus a yellow card if seen by a ref).
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