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Re: Kick off Rules explaination help

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If you could pin-point me to good resources about the rules and others related to this year's challenge, I'd really appriciate it.
The only place for those resources that I know of IS the official site. CD is the only other place (though I think there is an FLL forum somewhere; I've never found it).

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Also, a few personnal questions that I have:
*note* answered one of my own questions and presented it anyway, to help any other teams that might have that same question.

1) The Wave Turbine: There's always that confusion about that 2 parts moving independetly from eachother. Can it be that one part of the whole can move on it's own, without moving any other part in the whole or being moved by the whole, and the same thing with the other? Or just that one part can move, and the other doesn't necessarly have to move, and when the other part will move, the one part doesn't necessarly have to move?

Sounds confusing, I know. It'd be great if you could give me some sort of example (real life possibly) of such a thing.
Re-read Q&A. Specifically, QA16, QA61, and QA73.

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3)QA35 on official FLL site says there's a problem with the corn processing mission, because an oil barrel must be placed in the farm, but you lose points if the oil touches the farm. Where is there a house in the farm? And if there really is a house there, then how exactly can I put the oil barrel in the farm or just to make it count that I brought it there?
Read QA36. If it isn't touching the mat...
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4)QA49 on official FLL site mentions an oil barrel on the truck? Is that legeal?

Thanks for the help!
Read the Field Setup for the Truck.
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Truck: (No Dual Lock) Place and point the Truck as shown on the mat, with its wheels on the short lines and between the long lines. Place three of the red version of the Oil Barrel lying down on the floor in the bed of the truck, with two behind the cab and one between the wheel wells. The studs on each barrel may point toward front or rear (variable). Barrels must not be connected to each other.
Even in FLL, it does help to read the manual and Q&A thoroughly! (I'm not even a competitor or volunteer this year--nothing within range.)

[edit]And, for the record, the game is aptly named. I'm still puzzled about some aspects of the scoring...
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