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Re: pic: Jake Blues Back

It's legal. You too can use a stream of air to deflect the balls coming at your trailer. Note that you can't use said stream to add any downforce to your robot and increase your traction. Q&A said so in two rulings:
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=10943 on using fans to deflect.
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11025 on the downforce.
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