Low bar or not

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Are you an inch under 16, or an inch under 14? The low bar is located at the neutral zone end of the defense, which means that you will need to be significantly shorter than 16 inches on your leading edge as you pass under hte low bar.

(I use the term leading because we have tried to eschew use of front and back for our robot. It will cross different defenses in different directions. We have a boulder launch that projects the boulder at the high goal from the opposite end of the pickup. Our robot ends are "pickup" and "launch" rather than "front" and "back".

Our height is 14.9 inches, give or take. We have a definite front and back to our robot because of our use of an arm, but we're alternatively looking at approaching the low bar from the back while going in to the courtyard, and the opposite for exiting the courtyard.
Since the defense isn't all that big, how big is the difference in a structure being closer or farther to the neutral zone? And will it make that much of a difference trying to pass underneath it?