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Re: Overdrive: Least favorite rules

I'm betting the least liked rule after competitions... by the refs, too, I suspect, is going to be the "breaking the plane" rule.

After watching our robot drive on a mocked-up field the other night, it became apparent that small corners of robot can easily and inadvertently "break the plane", putting them in the previous quadrant and incurring a 10 point penalty. This will be especially difficult with robots that have longer arms or manipulators that are trying to get control of a ball.

It isn't that the idea behind the rule is bad... it is just that it is going to be very difficult to call consistently without one ref specifically designated for each quadrant dividing line and positioned so that they are directly in line with the quadrant (which would put them smack in the middle of a driver station).

But perhaps GDC has already thought this one through and has a solution of which I am unaware, or it will just turn out to be a non-issue. It might have possibly improved consistency to have a lap counter over each quadrant line and simply assess you a penalty if you trigger the same quadrant counter twice in a row (which is a slightly different rule from what exists now).


Jason