Vex "Gateway" 2011-2012 VRC Game

[pwnageNick]

What does "latched" really mean? because you can latch a gate closed, but can you latch a gate open?

The way I interpreted it was that there is probably some kind of latch on the field wall where you latch the gate once its up so the coach doesn't have to sit there holding it up the whole match.

They need to explain the part where the humans can go on to the field, they're not clarifying that very well.

I don't feel like opening up my manuel cause I'm lazy ( ) but I think basically if you're robot wasn't able to move at the beginning of the match you can reach in and ix the battery/cord/cpu/etc. to get it to run as long as its touching your colored mat tile (which if it wasn't moving should not be a problem). Whether they covered it in the rules or not, VEX won't allow people to walk onto the field to fix a robot or anything crazy like that. I think they basically added this because they were tired of seeing matches go to a waste because teams couldn't move. As far as discussion that has been going on so far about whether this could be like FLL where you add and subtract "attachments", I don't believe that will work because (once again, paraphrasing cause I'm lazy) the definition of a robot is anything brought to the field that is not a controller or person. So you can't keep attachments with you to put on later; at least the way I'm interpreting it.

I've pretty much read the entire manual and I'm still pretty confused. I defiantly need to see the animation. Surely going to be an interesting year;]. Good luck to everyone!

They played the animation at World, so I'm sure they will put it up once this weekend is over. They will probably post Appendix's B,C,D,E soon too.

This season's going to be awesome. And DISNEYLAND!!! Cali here we come. But gotta focus on St. Louis first

See everyone on the field in St. Louis and this coming season for Gateway!