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Originally Posted by eagle33199
I've seen quite a bit of assumptions floated here without much to back them up. For example - how much of the playing field does clue #2 show? To determine this, we'll base it off the official field drawings from last year ( http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/...aspx?id=11624).
Those drawings dictate that the rail is roughly 18 inches high, and the spacing between the vertical supports is roughly 72 inches - with the exception of the sides next to the ramp (the two fully visible sections in the clue) - those are roughly 49 inches wide.
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I agree with you that we should use the best measurement we can find. But disagree with your selection of parts. The three full-sections of rail shown in the image are all the 72-inch length. The gate is now wider than previous years. With the extra rail visible on the ends of the image we have nearly 22 feet of rail visible. That is 40% of the standard field length. Thus we are seeing much more (80%) with symmetry.
The middle 10% of the field could have a stripe on the floor. But there is not much room for a structure like the rack-n-roll tower . . . etc.