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with a cylinder whose center point is tangent to the ground and has a base perpendicular to the ground you can have a robot of INFINITE length! however it would only be able to go 40cm high and thats a semicircular shape
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As jgannon said earlier, the rule clearly does not allow this (80-inch-diameter upright cylinder).
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We hope this rule will be STRICTLY enforced.
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I would be surprised if this is enforced at all, particularly the cylinder version. The only way to really enforce that would be to catch a robot suspected of breaking the volume, then after the match put the robot in a physical device to measure all the way around the circle - a refereeing nightmare.
Last year's 72" rule was similar, but in practice was only called on robots that had deployed ramps outside the home zone. I saw more than a few arms extending out of the box without penalty.
That said, I don't condone knowingly breaking the rule. GP, rather than the referees, will have to cover this one.