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13-03-2016, 21:07

CalTran

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Re: Balloons

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Originally Posted by tig567899

I had an interesting thought about attaching helium balloons to our robot, and then detaching them in the middle of a match. The only rule I could find regarding the issue is G19:

However, the field is defined as:

Which means that leaving things ABOVE the field doesn't really count?

Could somebody please clarify?

What possible reason could you have for doing this?

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