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Originally Posted by ExarKun666
Two virtual horizontal planes, that are contained, which implies your trailer is part of the BUMPER ZONE, so you could potentially look at this as an opportunity to see this as you being able only to remove balls from your own trailer and no one else's, but whether it removes the points or not is still very confusing to me, anyone know?  |
Exar,
By your extremely permissive interpretation, you cannot touch the following items when they are not between 1 and 7 inches from the floor:
-Field structures
-Moon rocks
-Empty cells
-Super cells
<G34> specifically addresses ROBOT-to-ROBOT interaction, right there in the name. TRAILERS are brought into the description as well as a seemingly separate issue. At worst you could assume that <G34> applies to all ROBOTS, aside from your own, and all TRAILERS, including your own. In which case, you would be correct that descoring would be much more difficult.
Phil and I are pointing out that Section E. doesn't seem to apply to TRAILERS as it is written, and thus it isn't a problem. We're certainly open to correction from the GDC, but that's the way it appears to us at the moment.
In a more general sense, I assume that if the GDC hasn't specifically forbidden something, they're probably allowing it. Especially as they seem to have considered other forms of descoring (tipping goals). I can't bring myself to believe they didn't consider whether teams might attempt descoring in this fashion.