Guy,
I was not reacting to anything that happened in SVR,
I was reacting to the statement requoted below, offered
as guidance for week 4 and 5 regionals. As noted,
whether or not the knockdown is a completion of a
hurdle depends on exactly how it got there, and also
which direction it was knocked down in.
I did note that Team 8 was pretty good at knocking
down a bonus ball in their prefered direction at SVR.
I thought that this was pretty good thinking on the part of
the driver team.
Eugene
Originally Posted by danshaffer
And for those of you with week 4 or 5 regionals, it is our interpretation of the rules that:
1. If a robot from Alliance B descores a ball belonging to Alliance A that was placed there by a robot from Alliance A and it ends up on the other side of the finish line (ie not in Alliance A's home stretch) it is an 8-point hurdle. Keep this in mind when attempting to remove bonus balls. This comes from the definition of hurdle.
2. Bonus balls must not be supported by a robot from the same alliance. Balls that are supported by only the overpass and robots from that alliance are scored as +12 in accordance with G14.
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Originally Posted by sumadin
That is true. However, the situation we discussed with the refs and clarified, was as follows: red ball starts on the red side over pass. It is knocked down, and is carried across the blue finish line. It is then shot from the red home stretch onto the overpass, where it stays until a blue robot knocks it in the counter-clockwise direction.
That was initially not scored as a hurdle, and after clarification, was called a hurdle.
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