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Re: How do you get your other ball

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Originally Posted by flamefixed View Post
Or, being ON your opponents finish line. According to the rules, you have broken the plane and technically out of the homestretch.
That's not correct. Breaking the plane is the metric for determining if you're going clockwise, not counter-clockwise. When going counter-clockwise, what section of the track you're on depends on the CROSSING definition.
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CROSSING: The act of a TRCKBALL or ROBOT passing through the plane defined by a line (i.e. LANE MARKER or FINISH LINE) when it is projected vertically upwards. A TRACKBALL or ROBOT shall have CROSSED a line when all parts of the object, while traveling in a counterclockwise direction, have completely passed through the plane.
We saw this in the human demonstration during kickoff... a robot broke the plane of a line during hybrid, but didn't entirely CROSS it, so he didn't get any bonus points.
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