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Originally Posted by sst.thad
Calling the new G40 seems very confusing to me. So now the human player must be much more cautious, because now if they got closer then 12 inches to the field its a tech? That seems pretty harsh, and that zone seems like it would be much harder to enforce then the field barrier, which is an easy thing to see if somebody crosses, verses the arbitrary safety zone, which is gonna be hard to keep a good eye on. Throwing a ball from the hp zone could easily cause your hands to cross it, but at a point 6+ feet off the ground, which would be hard to call.
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It DOES complicate the calling of keeping a human out of the SAFETY ZONE a bit, but I'm frankly OK with a missed call here or there on that one (since its still 8" from the FIELD and the ROBOTS are only supposed to have incidental incursion over the field barrier anyway.
Much better than the original rule which would very quickly have turned into the G22 of 2008 (which most off-seasons universally changed to not allowing you to reverse your robot fully THROUGH the plane of the LINEs, rather than BREAKING the PLANE, because G22 as it played at official events in 2008 was awful).
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19-02-2014, 17:47
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