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Re: Rule G36 unclarity

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Originally Posted by RandomStyuff View Post
Our team has a problem with the unclarity of rule G<36>. The robot we have built has a cannon to which the ball has to get to through a tube like elevator (a very shaky description, but I'm not very good at explaining things...)

Now, our problem is that if the game ends while we have a ball inside this tube, we can't get the ball out manually... The problem is that we aren't sure if we are complying with rule G<36> if we make a program-side counter which guarantees that no balls will be in that tube at the end of the game... any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance!
I do not believe that a program side counter will fix this issue because if your robot is disabled for any reason during the match it will not clear the balls correctly from your 'tube'.

<G36> is very clear that the balls must be able to be removed from the robot without powering the robot up, regardless of the state it was in at the end of the match.

Looks like you have a little bit of redesign ahead of you.
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