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Re: Do minibots need to stay at the top of the pole?

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Originally Posted by AlexD744 View Post
Quoting Violation for rule <G20>, not the rule itself. "TOWER is disabled if MINIBOT is DEPLOYED above the DEPLOYMENT LINE."
Reading also the definition of DEPLOYMENT:

DEPLOYMENT – the act of positioning a MINIBOT on a TOWER. DEPLOYMENT starts when the MINIBOT breaks the vertical projection of the TOWER BASE circumference during the END GAME. (Related form, DEPLOY, verb)

It seems that it could be possible to launch a minibot outside the vertical projection of the tower base and above the deployment line as long as the hostbot lets go of the minibot before the minibot breaks the projection. If this is true, then I figure it would much easier to launch the minibot at top of the hostbot since the distance to the sensor would be much less.

Does this seem legal? I feel this is not in the spirit in the game but as far as I can tell it seems legal but perhaps technically difficult to achieve.