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Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
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It isn't anywhere near lawyering the rules when you ask a specific question of the GDC and get a specific answer -- only to have them change their mind later.

It isn't as if we were all sitting around with our fingers crossed that nobody would realize this daft plan we'd come up with. Teams asked them for a specific definition and the GDC provided it! I don't know how much farther from lawyering you can possibly get than that, really.
The original question had no context of balancing the bridge.

If the question was, "Since the ball ramp is considered part of the bridge assembly, will a robot sitting under the bridge on the ball ramp count as balanced?" The obvious answer is "No, stop lawyering the rules."
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