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Re: Legality of Team 190's Mechanism?

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Originally Posted by Eric O View Post
Since it is by definition in the Home Stretch (meaning the last quadrant the entire robot was in), no part of the robot can break the plane into the quadrant before its home stretch.
That's the way I interpreted the rule, but that's not actually what it says.
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Originally Posted by GDC in R22
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.
You can break the plane into the "previous" quadrant, as long as you do it in a clockwise direction. It makes clear sense when the robot is going around the border. However, when the robot is in more than 2 quadrants, it isn't so obvious. I'd have to say it's not a violation of <R22> if the part of the arm crossing into the fourth quadrant was previously in the third quadrant.
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