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Originally Posted by 1075guy
I'm gonna have to disagree here... They changed <R19> in a big way. Not being able to intentionally affect balls above the bumper zone, while not POSESSING them is huge.
define 'a specific manner'. If i design a robot that looks approximately like this:
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and park it in the direction that would deflect balls toward my end, have i violated this rule as updated in TU#2? |
Yes, good question, and what if I climb the tower and TILT my robot's flat , previously vertical side in the line of balls falling from the return ramp? Where does the 3" get measured from now that the robot has tilted. Do I have to base this 3" penetration into robot space on my original on-the-floor size, shape and orientation? If I have a tall vertical 60" flat side, and I climb the tower such that I tilt and have returning balls hitting this flat side, if my tilting moves a spot on this flat side near the top more than three inches from a vertical line through the previous UN-TILTED location of this spot, then if a ball hits this spot while tilted, is it a violation. They always make rules with INCH LIMITS that DO NOT ACCOUNT for shifting frames of reference. Then when you ask questions, they dance around this major defect in the rules.