What defines a "tile"?

In competition, we were told that our robot needed to move fully onto a specific tile to start autonomous. We were lined up with the far edge of the tile’s interlocking “teeth” and were told by a match official that this was not “on the tile” and it needed to be lined up with the inside edge of the “teeth”.

I asked several veteran teams and coaches that had no answer to this, so I’m posing the question here – what defines the “tile”? Is it just the inside area sans the “teeth”, or does it include them? It seemed extremely ticky-tacky to call our team out on and ultimately it’s not a big deal, but with the nature of how the tiles are put together, they overlap some. Anyone have an answer?

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I’m not an official, but the Andymark official tiles also have variance

The size range is anywhere from 24 ¼” to 24 ⅜” from outside to outside of each tile.

So how much is the length of one of those teeth, plus or minus 1/8th or 1/8th / 2 to account for symmetrical difference on both sides.

To Andymark that measurement is from the teeth to teeth it would seem

It sounds like this is for pre-match robot setup.

By rule, the robot is supposed to start “Completely In” one of two tiles.

If the interlocking teeth are considered part of a tile, then if a robot would be over that intersection, then it would technically be “In” 2 different tiles as opposed to “Completely In” one of them.

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