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Originally Posted by Raul
I also agree that as a ref, we need an interpretation on robots that start tall, but go down to a 38x60 base.
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That's an interesting problem with this rule. If FIRST indicates that a robot which "falls" to a 38x60 base then gets the 38x60 base to touch the loading zone with, how is that any different from a robot which "folds out" to have a similar size base, as I assume Chris' robot does? I find the two concepts to be pretty much the same thing, so based on their current ruling I'd say that the next logical answer is that robots which fall over cannot use their 38x60 base to touch, making it almost impossible to be "in" the loading zone. Now, common sense should take over here and say that that's ridiculous and pretty much dooms teams who went with that design. But if you allow teams to increase their loading zone contact by falling over at the start but not teams who deploy outriggers, isn't that a bit unfair?