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Originally Posted by bobotics319
I have two gripes. One is the 72x72 rule, which I believe has no relevance other than to hinder us (although we can position our robot diagonally in the box giving us over 100 inches of length).
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The rule probably exists so that you can't block enough of the field to lock down the gameplay. Consider 179's tri-fold robot in 2003: it was designed to vault over a field element and block a 12-foot section of the field, preventing most opponents from reaching its' alliance's scoring stacks.