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Re: Rules Questions

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Originally Posted by DavidGitz View Post
Anybody see anything yet about driving on to one of the tubes to get 4" up? Can't intentionally damage the playing piece, but obviously you don't want to damge it because you need it to be functional. Thought in the demo video that in the corner of the screen it had a robot on top of a tube.

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Originally Posted by 2007 FRC Manual
<G56> ROBOTS in HOME ZONE - ROBOTS score bonus points at the end of the match if they are entirely in their HOME ZONE, not in contact with any element of the field (carpet, alliance station, goal etc.) and the lowest point of the ROBOT is higher than 4 inches and/or 10 inches above the carpeted field surface.
In addition to the point above about possibly getting dinged for field damage because of this, I would say that the game objects count as "elements of the field." This would mean you are in contact with an "element of the field" because you are sitting on the toroid which negates the bonus points.
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