[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by piotrm

I guess this is where differences of interpretation come in and FIRST probably needs to clarify. Most of the people that mentioned anything about this rule would interpret a robot hanging from another which is hanging from the bar as not scoring points. But I would definetly agree with nic_radford. At first reading of this rule it seems obvious (to me) that a robot hanging off a robot which is supported by the bar is also supported by the bar- a transitivity of sorts.

I see one rule that applies to hanging, <G03>. Are there any others?

Here is my interpretation based on that rule.

<G03>
a ROBOT HANGING from the Pull-Up Bar at the end of the match is worth 50 points

since both ROBOT and HANGING are capitalized, they are defined. I won't waste my time with the definition of ROBOT, but the defenition of HANGING is as follows

a ROBOT is considered HANGING from the Pull-Up Bar if it is directly SUPPORTED by the horizontal bar and is not touching the carpet, platforms or goals

Now of course, that depends on the definition of SUPPORTED which is as follows.

If the "supporting" object is removed, the ball would not remain SCORED or CAPPED and/or the ROBOT would not remain HANGING

Now, by that defenition, a robot HANGING by another robot is SUPPORTED both by the first robot and also the bar. However, it is only directly SUPPORTED by that robot, and so does not meet the definition of HANGING and does not score 50 points.

However, I'm am open to the fact that there may be another place in the manual that casts some doubt, can you point me to it?