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Originally Posted by Joachim
How does simply moving a plastic laundry basket have to "damage" or "tip" it? The rules committee seems to be saying "do what we meant, not what we said."
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I believe the GDC response was that moving the laundry basket would damage the "scoring area". Which, presumably, was specified as illegal in the rules.
Without having read the FTC rules in detail, and just basing my comments on the GDC reply, I can conceive that the laundry basket is meant to be part of the "scoring area"... perhaps a physical manifestation of the scoring area boundary... and that by moving the laundry basket the scoring area has been changed... and since the "scoring area" was no longer as specified in the rules that the scoring area was therefore damaged.
Although no physical harm would come to the laundry basket, there would be harm to the overall "scoring area" as defined in the rules.
Damage, after all, does not always require destruction!
But I do appreciate how it feels to see the GDC make a ruling that one disagrees with... but perhaps the reason I find it so frustrating when there is an FRC ruling with which I disagree is because it is such a rare occurance.
I think we can all agree that the GDC's for the various robot games do about as good a job as is humanly possible given that they have thousands of fairly bright people around the world reading the rules and looking for a legal strategic advantage.
Jason