2008 Game- Overdrive

[Jake177]

Originally Posted by SSMike

During the game practice, two red "bots" passed the trackballs back and forth. On would lift it over the bar and then the other would pass it back. Could you hypothetically do this the entire game, as long as you are not obstructing the path?

I didn't see the webcast, but as near as I can tell from reading the manual this is legal. The GDC definitely went through a lot of trouble to make sure one robot couldn't spend the entire match passing a ball back and forth over the hurdle (a la the 1995 game). The only problem I can see is that the robot on the far side of the hurdle would have to avoid breaking the plane of the finish line, violating G22.
<G22> Direction Of Traffic – ROBOTS must proceed around the TRACK in a counter-clockwise direction. Once a ROBOT has CROSSED a LANE MARKER or FINISH LINE, it shall not break the plane of the line by moving in the clockwise direction.