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Re: Lots of crossing the plane

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Originally Posted by MikeJ675 View Post
I think part of the problem is the penalties (at least at FLR) have been if even the smallest percentage of a robot crosses back over the line. I've seen a lot of penalties where a team will just barely cross a line and have to back up to get around a stopped bot and they get a penalty for it.

It's probably too late to fix it, but it probably should have been a penalty to completely go back over a line, as opposed to having a small portion of your bot cross the line.

I've even seen penalties where a team veers off into the central rail during autonomous and has a small corner of their bot cross the line when they get stuck on the central rail.
How about reading Update 15? If there's a stopped robot, and you can't get around them without penalty, signal to pass. They have 6 seconds to clear. If they don't, they get a penalty.

Oh, and Q&A already covered the hybrid veer. It's a penalty, and has been since at least mid-build.
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