[Kims Robot]

I think by the rules, this is a legal "move from the zone", however, as pointed out, if it is not easy to tell that the foot has been lifted, the attendant may never know. I think it is safest for a team to retract the arm and back up at least a foot so that the attendant knows something has changed.

I think the most important thing with these fuzzy rules(ie a lot of these YMTC rules), is that whatever the judges rule, or however the game starts, it remains consistant. Looking at this redabot example, if redabot were allowed to load in this manner on the red alliance, and then switched to the blue alliance in the next QM, and the blue autoloader attendant did not know about this team's "foot" idea, it may cause some issues when the bot goes to load as part of the blue alliance...

Has anyone submitted this exact question to FIRST to get their take on it?