Our answer to the long range shooter

[vikesrock777]

Originally Posted by bs7280

Not true. They said we could take ours on and off whenever we please. Official descision was made by head refs at first.

Yeah, this is likely true for your position per rule T08

T08

At the time of Inspection, the ROBOT must be presented with all MECHANISMS (including all COMPONENTS of each MECHANISM), configurations, and decorations that will be used on the ROBOT during the entire competition event. It is acceptable, however, for a ROBOT to play MATCHES with a subset of the MECHANISMS that were present during Inspection. Only MECHANISMS that were present during the Inspection may be added, removed or reconfigured between MATCHES. If MECHANISMS are changed between MATCHES, the reconfigured ROBOT must still meet all Inspection criteria.

It sounds and looks as if your blocker is one that you've at some point presented to an inspector, and are just discussing adding and removing it as is necessary.

In order to be able to add and remove it at will, you must have at some point presented it to an inspector. Many improvised blockers being seen are created during elim matches as a response to a full court shooter and as such were not presented at a previous inspection. If doing this, teams need to make sure to get it inspected to be legal. I believe this is what Eric was referring to (though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)