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Re: Rule G32

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol View Post
Your support bar 10 inches above the ground is not inside your BUMPER ZONE. If it contacts another robot outside that robot's BUMPER ZONE, you could be penalized under <G32E>, and even DQ'd. But <G32C> gives an exemption to this - if the only contact is in the vertical plane directly above the BUMPER PERIMETER, you are OK. If your opening is so large that a significant corner of the other robot could be enveloped by it and now your 10" bar contacts an interior portion of that robot, you are not OK. Design accordingly.
Let me see if I get this... I'm still working on my BUMPER RULE DEGREE...

If we have an opening in our robot's BUMPER PERIMETER to allow game pieces to enter - with a roller or conveyer for example - then this roller is outside the BUMPER ZONE. Should another robot's corner enter this opening, and the contact with the other robot is further back inside the robot than the BUMPER PERIMETER, then that contact is illegal.

Since you can't predict where you will make contact with another robot (could easily be outside BUMPER ZONE - deeper in their robot) you can't have an opening in your BUMPERS ZONE/PRIMETER that allows a robot to enter.

From what it seems then, most of the chassis/designs that have been shared here on CD are not legal because a corner of a robot could enter the opening.
(816, 1511, 1856, 949, 1712, 935, 842 all have relatively wide openings where contact could easlily be made behind the BUMPER PERIMETER edge of the robot.

Are we all in violation of <G32C/E>?

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