[dhitchco]

Amy,
you may be correct; I slightly mis-read rule <S08>. But I also can't find anything about the STARTING inventory (your assumption of six?) tetras in each human player station.

Rule <S08> only states that I cannot pass a tetra to your ROBOT, nor can I interact with your ROBOT. It says nothing about my human player "interacting" with your team's human player except that I can't stand on your pressure pad per rule <S10> nor does it say anything about taking inventory from team #1 to team #2, etc.

But, obviously, if you are taking inventory of tetras from a fellow team in your alliance, you'll NEED that human player to pass it to you, such that you and the other player don't move off of your own pressure mat.

In summary, section 3.3 stipulates that the match starts with 40 tetras, and rule <G04> says that the alliance can pre-load ONE robot with ONE tetra; therefore leaving 39 tetras in four (4) diffeent loader stations.

I haven't done the detailed math, but even the shortest distance between a loading station and a goal (my own end zone) is about 15'. So, to cover that round-trip in 2 minutes (without doing anything else), my robot would have to travel at about 3 feet/second in order to stack the six goals from the human loading station (including a 'swag' for the manual human running back & forth also).

SO....yes, it's possible that any one robot's inventory of the (assumed) six tetras might be depleted. The alliance robot that travels to the far end of the field will surely NOT use up its starting inventory.

I'm also ASSUMING that if the human players need more inventory, that the field attendants might run some extras over to your human players from the extras at the auto-load stations.

Interesting ideas here.............