Legality of Team 190's Mechanism?

[Kingofl337]

It's one thing to lawyer the rules -- which I take to mean fixing on a small discrepancy in the rules to win at something which you would not otherwise win, and taking advantage of the opportunities inherent in an open-class mechanical competition (which is why I keep thinking of sailing and automotive examples, I suppose -- remember winged keels, rear-engined top-fuel dragsters, and the Ford GT40s in Le Mans?).

I can't speak to the intricacies of <G22> as it relates to a stationary robot passing a ball around the quadrants. Given the definition of "CROSSING," my head throbs just thinking about it. This could easily have been prevented, however, if the GDC had just said that the Lane Marker did not exist underneath the Lane Divider, as no one would then have attempted this strategy. I think by making the Lane Marker extend the whole length of the arena, the GDC was practically asking for someone to build a stationary ball-twirling robot.

I agree this doesn't help things either.