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Originally Posted by MasonMM
many of you have said that a tetra only counts as part of your robot during human loading, but it also counts with cases of the autoloader.
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I still haven't seen the rule that says a tetra is part of the robot when at the autoloading zone, even with the definitions of "robot", etc.
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Originally Posted by Goldeye
I feel an appropriate way to cover it all is that a tetra loaded on a bot (either by human loading, auto loading, or pickup on the field) is considered part of the robot when determining if the bot is in contact with something (specifically a loader or the field) because the bot is in control of the tetra, and the tetra may under certain conditions may support the bot. This doesn't seem to be true, though, as accordng to Dave, a robot may rest on a tetra outside of the end line, and still earn the 10 point bonus.
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I think the rules regarding this are ok as is, as long as they are called consistently. A tetra merely touching a robot in the endzone is fine. If a robot arm is supported by that tetra, and otherwise would be outside the zone, that's iffy but appears to be within the rules. Going along those lines, I suppose you'd also have to consider when a robot runs out of time trying to cap, and that tetra is touching the stack, currently that should be fine... but what happens if you remove that tetra, is it supporting the arm to keep it from touching the stack? It would take even longer to score if this had to be done, and another judgement call (unless they physically remove the tetra, which might not be possible at the time).
I think it should be the way it is now. Tetra is part of the robot in the case of HP zone. So long as the "robot" as defined, is not touching a stack or outside the endzone or the autoload tetra, it's good.