18-03-2008, 00:06
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,939
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Re: Legality of Team 190's Mechanism?
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Originally Posted by dtengineering
Yeah... good point on that. The work around of intentionally taking a penalty isn't really in keeping with the spirit of the rules, either, but was just something I'm throwing out there for brainstorming. Jason
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Do they really have to take a penalty? If before the leave the very first quadrant (the one they start in) they place a small four-legged object atop the lane divider (one leg in each quadrant); and then operate with the bulk of their robot remaining in that original quadrant for the rest of the game; does that allow them to be in all four quadrants at once without ever returning to a quadrant that they left sometime in the past, without ever exceeding the height limit and without ever posing an entanglement risk?
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