[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Nick Moroz

It is my understanding that the "Home Stretch" (in which your robot has to be 6' or under) is only 1/4 of the field. As shown in the picture below, taken from the manual, the "Home Stretch" is defined as the area from your finish line to the middle of the field. Therefore, you can go past the opposing alliance's "Home Stretch" and knock the ball from the roost towards the opposing alliance's "Home Stretch". This allows the opposing alliance to easily push their ball past their finish line: a seperate strategy.

Bottom line: go past their "Home Stretch" and knock their ball from its roost.

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Nick Moroz
Volunteer Engineer
Team 548 Robostangs

Nick, the concern is the interaction with this plan and G22. G22 states that a robot will be penalized if it breaks the plane of a finish line or lane marker that it has CROSSED. So if you cross the opponent's line to get out of their home stretch and extend above 6', then you can't have any part of your robot break the plane of the finish line while you're bumping the ball back and away from you.