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Re: Legality of Team 190's Mechanism?

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
OR the team could, on their first pass around, take a penalty, but drop a small part of the robot, attached by a cord, into each quadrant. At this point the robot would be in all four quadrants at the same time, and should no longer be subject to penalties.
This would probably run into 80" rule trouble as well as presenting an entanglement hazard in addition to the potential yellow card mentioned by jgannon above.
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