[Madison]

Originally Posted by proto-man

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Can anyone define competition event? Rule R09 says you CANNOT exceed, while R12 says that you have to stay within 72x72 while on the playing field. Looking around the forums, it seems the general view is of the latter, but I just wanted to clear that up. When they say "competition event", do they not also mean the match?

Perhaps there is something simple I am overlooking because I seem to be the first one asking this question on these forums. Someone else should have noticed this before, right?

My understanding of the intent is that they meant to say that robots must remain within the class they declare at their first inspection throughout the event. While in a match, your robot may expand to the allowed footprint of 72 sq. in.

In other words, you can't pass inspection with a 6' tall, 100 lbs. robot and then, in the elimination rounds hack off 2' and add 20 lbs. of balast. That would represent a change of class and is disallowed.