I have looked through the rules not fully but a good bit but I’m still wondering if this is a way to score or not since if you can stack on the higher stages then that would change the way to approach this since if your able to score l3 withing every few seconds that’s a lot of points
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Wouldn’t this involve guiding the coral down if possible
Take a look at the definition of Scored for Coral in 6.5.1.
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they slant inwards from the look of it so all it would be is scoring in the middle of two that you have scored on or do you mean something else
to me that means I’m correct unless I’m reading it wrong
So no limit?
“SCORED ON (blank) BRANCH”
Speaking of which, if you follow the definition of scored coral in that rule, do you think the coral placed on L4 in this picture is actually scored?
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i saw that in the video also but honestly with this information of you can stack till they start falling will teams just say lets not focus on L4 and get cycling down to seconds
I don’t mean whether or not it’s touching the algae. I mean whether or not the end of the branch is inside the volume of the coral. (The end is sticking out the top.)
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Read as written, I don’t think that’s scored.
I think it’s meant to score, but they may need to say “if any part of the branch is…”
You’re reading it wrong.
“End of the branch is inside the volume” is the key thing here.
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say “Within the coral volume”? if they wanted them to be scored that way.
I recall them saying in the video that coral on L4 is scored vertical from the image you posted above.
Seems a bit contradictive on FIRST’s part. Wouldn’t hurt to ask in the upcoming Q/A.
I’m laying strong odds that this will be clarified in an Team Update very quickly. My other bet is that this will be ruled a scored coral and they’ll end up going with something more like your definition @Ratback. They obviously meant for coral placed like that on the L4 to be scored and the fact that the tip of the branch sticks out a little bit was not recognized when the rule was originally written.
To address @thegravitor 's original question, no I do not think it will even be possible to stack coral, if by that you mean place more than one on a single branch. The L2 and L3 branches simply aren’t long enough (they’re shorter than the coral) and that tiny bit of the tip sticking out on L4 is not going to support a coral either. That’s probably why they didn’t bother to write a “only one coral per branch” rule, because they made in impossible to do that in the first place. No rule needed and FIRST has been trying really hard not to write unneeded rules.
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Well, Update 1 is out and I was mostly correct. They have indeed changed the definition of scored Coral to be simply “the Branch is inside the volume of the Coral”. However, they also did something I thought they wouldn’t bother with, and made it explicit that only one Coral can be scored per branch.
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