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Unread 14-03-2008, 21:37
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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
For the record, the Q&A in the link above was not the final ruling on 190's robot. The subsequent ruling at BAE, which brought in all Q&A rulings and Team Updates up to that point, greatly expanded the extent to which 190's scoring maneuver was considered to be hurdling (and thus protected from interference).
That's what I was wondering when I read the Q&A response. You don't need to satisfy ALL the criteria of hurdling to be considered in the act of hurdling. You need only be in the homestretch and either moving towards the overpass or elevating the trackball (or both). I'd hope the intent is that you'd be protected while performing such an amazing feat. You could be nit-picky that the trackball is no longer rising upwards, and so the act of "elevating" has stopped, was that what the Q&A respondant was originally thinking?

I guess I'm still a little confused when the arm extends into the quadrant directly adjacent CW from the homestretch. Based on everything I've seen so far this year, I can't shake a G22 call there. The robot itself hasn't moved CCW into the other quadrants, regardless of the motion of the trackball. At some point, the robot is sitting there with a part of it projecting over the lane marker into the CW quadrant.

I'd like to see how this all plays out. A part of me thinks someone somewhere made a slip up one way or another. We're human. It happens. Hopefully it'll get sorted out if it isn't already.
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