2008 Boston Regional

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Originally Posted by raceteen48

I do however have a question about certain penalties that I am confused about.
in one of our QF matches 69 got called for "Impeding a Hurdle" on team 125, which i was kind of confused about, because they are a launcher robot, and therefore i asked a referee later what the definition of "Hurdling" is, and he said "Hurdling is when the ball is just off the floor, now that seemed wrong to me, and when i got home i saw this on the First forums.

"The act of completing a HURDLE. To be considered in the process of HURDLING, the ROBOT must:

* be in its own HOME STRETCH, and
* be in POSSESSION of a TRACKBALL, and
* be moving toward the OVERPASS and/or elevating the TRACKBALL so that the top of the TRACKBALL is higher than the LANE DIVIDER."

now to me, that says that the robot has to have the ball ABOVE the lane divider, so therefore, a shooter robot should hypothetically never get a penalty called against someone else for impeding them in hurdling.

Emphasis mine

This means that if they were in their home stretch with possession of a trackball and moving towards the overpass then they are considered to be hurdling.