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Hurdle like Mad

So, I presented this idea to my team, and we're all pretty skeptical of it's legality. Can anyone tell me if the following strategy is legal/possible.

Park in the inside corner of your home stretch and pick up a ball with an arm. Then raise the ball 8 feet in the air, then rotate it completely through both finish lines. This would get you a hurdle <G11>, and clear the opponents finish line, allowing you to score again <G13>.

If this is a legitimate strategy, would you have to release the ball after that, or could you keep going? It says it has to touch the ground before you "re-contact" the ball, but if you never let go, you never re-contact.

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HURDLE: When a TRACKBALL CROSSES a FINISH LINE while passing above the OVERPASS
and then contacts either the floor or another ROBOT before re-contacting the originating ROBOT.

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Re: Hurdle like Mad

I don't believe you can score a hurdle if you are touching the ball as it crosses the overpass, so I don't believe that would work. (There's quite a bit of discussion in some other threads, that's my interpretation.)
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Re: Hurdle like Mad

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A Ball is not hudled until it crosses over the overpass, crossing the finish line in the process, and then touches the ground or another robot before recontacting the hurdling robot. If you never let go, you never hurdle the overpass.

This is pretty clealy stated- look under the Hurdling Definition in the Game Description
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Re: Hurdle like Mad

Let me just start by saying that I feel this is against the spirit of the game/rules, but that does not mean mean it is not legitimate.

In this post I will try to figure out if it is legal according to the current rules.

There are several aspects to this strategy:

1)Parking in one place - If you are not IMPEDING then this should be legal. <G40>

2)does crossing the LANE DIVIDER count as passing the LANE MARKER? - This should be defined The Arena. and it is:
Quote:
A two-inch wide stripe of white gaffers tape extends down the center-line of the TRACK and under
the LANE DIVIDER. This stripe is known as the “LANE MARKER.” The LANE MARKER divides the
TRACK into two halves: the “Red Lane” and the “Blue Lane.”
This should indicate the the LANE DIVIDER and LANE MARKER are two separate things, but the LANE MARKER extends under the LANE DIVIDER and thus crossing the LANE DIVIDER would qualify as passing the LANE MARKER.

3)HURDELing - this is where you get bitten:
Quote:
HURDLE: When a TRACKBALL CROSSES a FINISH LINE while passing above the OVERPASS
and then contacts either the floor or another ROBOT before re-contacting the originating ROBOT.
it must contact the floor or another ROBOT before re-contacting the originating ROBOT.

Sorry but your strategy will not award you points!
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Re: Hurdle like Mad

So, if you spin it around, then drop it behind you, and pick it up again, would that make it OK? Because then you've touched the ground, and thus completed a hurdle.

I was also thinking about that spirit of the game thing, but I figured that it's such a crazy way of doing it, and that it would require quite some engineering to accomplish, that it actually was in the spirit of the game. Innovation and engineering is what it's all about, isn't it? Any thoughts on this?
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Re: Hurdle like Mad

As stated before the ball needs to touch the ground or another robot. So I believe that you could pass the ball back and forth between robots, scoring points! This way the ball never leaves your alliance's possession.
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