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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
When the GDC uses the word block, they seem to throw in "the entire track" or "the flow of traffic." Look at St. Louis finals match 1 where 45 blocked by driving 7 feet and stopping. They clearly did not impede as both robots passed by them just fine.
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Clearly. True.
Ugh... team 292, who played you guys in the quarterfinals, told us to go out 8 feet and stop. I looked at the corner where we were planning on stopping, and figured that 7 feet was a better number.
Low and behold, 148 missed our front bumper by less than 1 inch, and 217 missed our back bumper by the same amount.
For match two, we changed our position to 8 feet out, as our friends on 292 originally suggested. That worked and held up 148. 217 hit the wall, so they didn't make it to the corner.
Since only one team on our alliance had a blocking position, there was obviously a clear path around our robot. From a design perspective, the blocked robot could do a variety of things to adjust to our blocking position and continue on their goal of crossing lines in hybrid mode.
Andy B.