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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

For everyone who is wondering about the legality of Team 190's robot: another team (Team 2158) completely independent and several thousand miles away from Team 190 thought of the exact same strategy (a week after we did) and posted it to the FIRST Q&A in the third week of the build season.

It was deemed legal. And our robot and strategy was again deemed legal at the BAE Granite State Regional in week one.

Quote:
Originally Posted by G22, 2008 Game Manual
<G22> Direction Of Traffic – ROBOTS must proceed around the TRACK in a counter-clockwise
direction. Once a ROBOT has CROSSED a LANE MARKER or FINISH LINE, it shall not
break the plane of the line by moving in the clockwise direction.
A PENALTY will be
assigned for each infraction.
The highlight is mine.

The entire robot never fully crosses any lane markers; only part of it does. It's exactly the same legality as partially driving your robot across a lane marker and then backing up. You won't get a penality because you never fully left the previous quadrant.
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