[Racer26]

You guys claim that I'm lawyering that rule, when I am entirely not. Nowhere in the rulebook does it mention that at the beginning of a match a team is ASSUMED to have just CROSSED the lane marker adjacent to their home stretch, and I don't think its reasonable to expect teams to assume that. As I said before, Q&A is for clarification of how rules are being interpreted, not WHAT the rules ARE. If they're changing what the rules ARE, it MUST be put in a team update.

Since they never said that was the assumption (yes, they said it in the Q&A, but I submit that its not really said that way AT ALL in the rules, that the rules dont match that interpretation in any way). IF the rules said "robots that break the plane of the quadrant immediately clockwise of their current location are subject to a penalty", THEN I would agree with everyone, but thats not how its worded.