Answered: Chain scoring with different color tubes

[1231bowser]

For scoring tube chains in round up: do the tubes need to be in contact with tubes of the same color or can the colors contrast? an example would be a stack of 6 red tubes presed against one blue tube on a goal post. The bottom red touching the floor will not be counted but will the rest of the red tubes affectivley “chain” touching the blue tube be scored?

[Karthik]

This answer has been updated in the following post to reflect the new manual edition from 11/17/2010. This answer only remains here as an archive. Please see the following post for the correct answer.

@1231bowser

For scoring tube chains in round up: do the tubes need to be in contact with tubes of the same color or can the colors contrast? an example would be a stack of 6 red tubes presed against one blue tube on a goal post. The bottom red touching the floor will not be counted but will the rest of the red tubes affectivley “chain” touching the blue tube be scored?

The tubes do not have to be the color. The definition of scored in reference to tubes touching other scored tubes does not specify that they have to be the same color.

*Scored *– A tube is considered scored if it is NOT touching a robot of the same color and it meets ONE of the following two criteria:
• A goalpost passes through the hole in the center of the tube AND the tube is fully below the top of the goalpost. (In the diagram below and to the left, the tube is legally scored by this criteria)
• The tube is touching another scored tube and not touching any of the foam field tiles. (In the diagram below and to the right, all tubes are legally scored; the bottom three by the first criteria, the top two by the second criteria)

[Karthik]

@1231bowser

For scoring tube chains in round up: do the tubes need to be in contact with tubes of the same color or can the colors contrast? an example would be a stack of 6 red tubes presed against one blue tube on a goal post. The bottom red touching the floor will not be counted but will the rest of the red tubes affectivley “chain” touching the blue tube be scored?

The chain scoring you mention is no longer a valid by the new definition of scored, which was updated in the VEX Round Up Game Manual on 11/17/2010

Scored – A tube is considered to be scored on a goalpost if any part of the tube encircles the goalpost or the projection of the top of the goalpost extended infinitely. If the lip of the movable weighted base is touching a foam tile at the end of the match, the goalpost is not projected. Please see the below images of legally scored tubes and the lip of a movable weighted base.