Drivers' Meeting

[sw293]

If contact inside the bumper zone precedes contact outside the bumper zone, is the contact considered incidental?

[Lil' Lavery]

The bumper zone rules have not changed since January 7th (with the exception of a Q&A clarification that stated a robot on the ramp that has contact, iniated by either party, outside of the bumper zone does not suffer a penalty for either robot, due to the unlevel surfacing), they just were not enforced very well at msot (if any) regional competitions. Go read the rules again, and ask a head ref tomorrow if you still have questions.
The spirit of the rules, at least how I and my team interpreted them, was to minimize any potentially harmful contact by forcing the elimination of contact outside of the bumper zone. This was mean to keep all hits "clean" body-on-body hits, nothing that can spear, impale, tip, trip, flip, dent (if you actually have your bumpers mounted, our .75" bend into our right side lower box channel shows why you should have them, and we now have them attached again), or otherwise harm another robot.

[sw293]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

The bumper zone rules have not changed since January 7th (with the exception of a Q&A clarification that stated a robot on the ramp that has contact, iniated by either party, outside of the bumper zone does not suffer a penalty for either robot, due to the unlevel surfacing), they just were not enforced very well at msot (if any) regional competitions. Go read the rules again, and ask a head ref tomorrow if you still have questions.

The rule might not have changed (actually it was changed on Update 12) but interpretations of the word "incidental" may well have, and I would like to know what incidental means. I've read the rules enough to know that "Rule <R35> in Section 5.3.4 establishes ROBOT BUMPER ZONEs" is not the case (Robot bumper zone is defined in section 4).

[Tom Bottiglieri]

What was the ruling on drivers stepping over the line? 0 or the buzzer?

I couldnt make it to the meeting.. team dinner..

[Mark McLeod]

Our driver relayed to me that you aren't to go over the line until the clock changes from 0 to 40. Then you can go.

We got to the team dinner late

[Ricky Q.]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Our driver relayed to me that you aren't to go over the line until the clock changes from 0 to 40. Then you can go.

This is to accomodate the new "delay" to check auton scores.

[Heretic121]

all i have to say is i was very upset that TWICE to us inparticular were not only entagled but flipped by an "apendage" and there was no call... no penalty... no dq... no nothing... if we werent flipped it wouldnt have been a blowout like it was i was just very upset so much time was taken to clear those rules and none of them were called... =(

[henryBsick]

I noticed this. I saw a lot of appendage interaction with very little to no calling. I know that personally Bunney, the 222 operator was a quick trigger on getting our flipped back up when we came near an opponent.