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Re: Week 3 Impressions of Rack n' Roll

Combining points into one reply -

In Detroit, most teams were inspected on Thursday, and all teams were inspected by their first match on Friday. No one missed their first match, although a few came close. A few teams did miss subsequent matches, though - by their own choice, because they evidently were fixing or upgrading something. One team brought the bot to the field only about 1/2 the time on Friday. And one team did not appear for their last match on Saturday morning, in which they were scheduled as a surrogate (extra match to make a full group of 6).

There were approximately the same number of penalties called in Detroit as at GLR, on a per-match basis. Perhaps even a few more in Detroit. Most were technical calls - entering ringers before tele-mode, deploying greater than 72x72, entering the opponent's home zone in the endgame. Teams were warned against high-speed ramming and pummeling (repeated banging) in all driver meetings, and I don't recall any ramming calls that were made. Nor did I see anything that I thought was ramming - although my duties generally made it impossible for me to see more than 30 seconds of any one match.

Pinning against the rack by a robot attempting to score is allowed.

Regarding arm-to-arm contact, I haven't seen this bullet point of <G35> mentioned:
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Extension to extension contact between two ROBOTS with appendages outside the 28-inch by 38-inch starting footprint will generally not be penalized.
Teams can't use their arm to spear another robot's guts, but they can make contact when both arms are outside the starting footprint. Arms have all sorts of doodads on them that can cause entanglement when two of them connect. Most times drivers in that situation recognize the danger, and attempt to disentangle without causing more damage.
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