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Re: pic: In the Loading zone?

According to the Q&A responses listed here and what I know about the rules and rule changes, you are not on the HDPE loading zone in front of the automatic loading station.

The loading station triangles extend approximately 31 3/16" from the field border toward the middle of the playing field. The only parts of your robot that start within the 28 x 38" limit and remainthere are your back wheels and what appears as your back wall in the included photo. These are clearly not close enough to the field border to be in contact with the triangle.

What may be your saving grace -- and I hope it is -- is the descriptor "robot-base and / or drive train" that is included with Q&A ID 978. If your drivetrain extends closer to the field border, starting a match in the upright position, you may be okay as far as "touching" the loading zone goes.

Because of a spring-loaded third arm segment (visible in their stowed position here), we had a lot of concerns regarding the "clarification" of this rule and whether our reach was too long to place our chassis squarely into the loading zone. Thankfully, we can begrudgingly shorten that third segment if it's a problem for us, but other teams don't have that flexibility.

In any case, I hope things work out for the best for your team, but it'll probably take another six volumes of "definitions" and "clarifications" before we're certain, if we're ever certain. In the meantime, FIRST needs to hire a writer.
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