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Re: 2008 Boston Regional

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Originally Posted by raceteen48 View Post
while i understand that we might have hit you, I thought the rule stated that if your attachments are outside the bumper zone, then you are responsible for all contact they make with another robot, and i thought that we had been penalized in an earlier match for hitting outside the bumper zone when we were sitting still, but i might be blurring Manchester and Boston here, so i might be wrong.
I'm not sure, I just remember Benge's final ruling being that it was an unintentional hit/entanglement so no penalty was called. Either way both semifinal matches were extraordinary and well played by both alliances. As for R04, I believe that because the arms fold up in contact with the overpass or another robot (or anything so long as it isn't a head on collision) that the inspectors and judges felt that they would not impose an obvious risk. Then again, its all in one's interpretation of the word obvious...

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