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Originally Posted by neoshaakti
alright our team has been discussing this option a lot...but I realized that the catapult idea wouldnt work if they wanted to say...hurdle...the ball
first off, in the definition of hurdling, it states "be moving toward the OVERPASS and/or elevating the TRACKBALL so that the top of the
TRACKBALL is higher than the LANE DIVIDER."
that means ure catapult will have to start at 6 feet (ht. of lane divider) in order for your robot to succesfully hurdle
correct me if Im wrong...
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You said it yourself, "and/or". You are hurdling when you are in your home stretch, in possession of a Trackball and moving towards the overpass (you do not need to have the top of the Trackball above six feet). G42 gives you protection while in the act of hurdling. The rules do not say you have to be in the act of hurdling (by definition) to hurdle. A hurlde is when the Trackball passess above the overpass (nothing more, nothing less) and will be scored if over your alliances overpass. For that matter, I do not see anywhere where it says that the Trackball must pass over in a counterclockwise direction, wow, does that open up possibilites! Please, someone correct me if I am wrong.
The rules could care less about how a Trackball gets above an overpass. You should be able to use a catapult, even if you are setting still and the top of the Trackball is not six feet off the ground. You will not be getting the protection of G42 if you are not moving towards the overpass tough.