Legality of Team 190's Mechanism?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by lemon1324

This rule in its wording implies that you can break the plane if the robot never crosses that line. Thus, as 190's robot never crosses any lines in the entire match, their mechanism is perfectly legal. Granted, that's rather lawyering it, but anything to help a great team. Congratulations on going for the cool idea rather than the safe one.

The robot is considered to have crossed the line already. That's in the Q&A. So it's breaking the plane of a line it's crossed. Good try, but not quite good enough.