Q/A questions so far..

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by AmyPrib

ID 1025 -- Regarding <G13>: May a robot retrieve a tetra from the automated loading station without being in the automated loading zone? Question already asked in Q/A, asking to define parameters of loading zone. Also discussed on CD, interpreting rules implies you need to be touching some part of the floor triangle to be "in" the LZ.

The updates so far seem to be saying that you do, in fact, have to be touching the blue/red triangle to be "in" the loading zone, but it seems unlikely that that is what the rules makers really intended. What the interpretations are saying is that, assuming you have a drive with wheels near the corners, if you drive up centered on the loading zone, you have to drive up REAL CLOSE to the field border in order to be in the zone, but if you are off-center from the LZ, you can be back much farther and still have a wheel on the triangle. It sounds like referees are going to be very busy looking for wheels on triangles.