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Originally Posted by EricH
You've obviously read the current manual, but in this case, I think you may want to look at it again. See <R19-B>, which I've highlighted in your post.
There is still debate about what "3 inches inside a mechanism...above the bumper zone" actually means, but I think the common consensus on CD is that that means that the ball can't go more than 3 inches into whatever mechanism/feature is used for the deflection, not that the mechanism must be no more than 3 inches from the frame perimeter. The GDC may wish to look at tweaking the wording of <G46> to match the current version of <R19>.
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Thank you for pointing this out, it makes some of my other ideas seem possible for deflecting balls the opposing team kicked. Still the first rule i stated would prevent controling the balls placement activley although you could make a fixed design that would deflect the ball into the desireed direction.
As everyone else has said though it doesn't seem like it is in the spirit of the game, and although i am new to FIRST i understand that loopholes aren't the way to go.
Thanks for pointing out the (potential) error in my understanding of the rule and thanks to the person who posted this to get some good creative ideas going.
Joe Stack
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