2008 game confusion thread

There is a similar question among my team. How are you supposed to knock off the trackballs that the opposing alliance places on the overpass? The rules are very unclear about this.

[Garth1388]

We are talking about this same question. It was complicated further for us because on both the animation and the human demonstration, the "Home stretch" rule was broken. The updates page and the Q and A page on USFIRST are not up yet. Are we making the mistake or did FIRST make the mistake?

Also, unfortunately, the Home Stretch appears to extend all the way under the overpass. Meaning that it is not possible to reach high enough until you've passed the second bar. This means that the only way to touch the ball is on the other side. However, this only leaves four inches between the first point of contact with the ball and the edge plane of the home stretch. It doesn't seem like it would be practical to knock a ten pound ball off of it's seat with four inches of motion.