Answered: Clarification of Appendix B: Robot Skills Challenge

[Ephemeral_Being]

We were reading through the introduction to that appendix, and saw something strange.

In this challenge teams will compete in sixty (60) second long matches in an effort to score as many points as possible. These matches will be entirely driver controlled. The playing field will be set up identically to that of a normal VEX Toss Up tournament match.

Is that simply intended as a clarification that there will be no mandatory autonomous period? We were considering automating portions of our routine; would this be legal? Is there any form of limit on how much can be automated? How will this limit be enforced at tournaments?

Additionally, if our driver was unable to attend the skills tournament, would it be legal to run our programming skills routine? It would be nice to at least get a score down.

Thanks.

[Karthik]

Is that simply intended as a clarification that there will be no mandatory autonomous period?

Yes, this is correct

We were considering automating portions of our routine; would this be legal? Is there any form of limit on how much can be automated?

Yes, this is legal. There is no limit on the extent of your automation.

Additionally, if our driver was unable to attend the skills tournament, would it be legal to run our programming skills routine? It would be nice to at least get a score down.

Yes, this would be legal.