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Re: Legality of Team 190's Mechanism?

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Originally Posted by 1075guy View Post
The Q&A can say it Eric, but its not a rule until its in the rulebook, via a team update. <G22> does not indicate that its implied that a robot has "crossed" the lane marker adjacent to it at the start of the match, and thus I feel that 190's mech, AND any robots whose autonomous is breaking the plane of that line are immune from <G22> because the wording of <G22> says "Once a robot has CROSSED...", and since they never CROSSED any lines, they can't get a G22 penalty.
It's an interpretation issue. Q&A is for interpretation. By the way, here is the Q&A in question: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=8187
So NOT immune by any stretch of the imagination.
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