Answered: Cubes on Skyrise Bases

[NimbusII]

Hi Karthik,

In a couple of recent Q+As, you have stated that a cube placed on a Skyrise base which doesn’t have any Skyrise sections built on it doesn’t count as scored.

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I understand that a cube placed on an empty Skyrise base is not counted as being scored on the Skyrise (for 4pts), but at our recent scrimmages we have been counting these cubes as scored in the team’s floor goal (for 1pt) - obviously only when the cube in question is touching the coloured tile.

Scored – A Cube is Scored if it is not touching a Robot of the same color and meets one of the following
criteria.

1. A Cube is touching a Floor Goal of its own color, and is not Scored on a Skyrise.
2. Any part of a Post is within the volume defined by the outer edges of the Cube.
3. Any part of a Skyrise is within the volume defined by the outer edges of the Cube of the same
   color as the Alliance Starting Tile adjacent to the Skyrise Base.

Note: If a Cube is Scored in a Floor Goal and on a Skyrise, it will only count on the Skyrise.

I would just like to check whether we are scoring this correctly, and (hopefully) set up a question which makes it clear how this situation should be handled.

Thanks,
Abigail

[Karthik]

I understand that a cube placed on an empty Skyrise base is not counted as being scored on the Skyrise (for 4pts), but at our recent scrimmages we have been counting these cubes as scored in the team’s floor goal (for 1pt) - obviously only when the cube in question is touching the coloured tile.

I would just like to check whether we are scoring this correctly, and (hopefully) set up a question which makes it clear how this situation should be handled.

Yes, you are scoring this correctly. Cubes on an empty Skyrise base do not qualify as Scored under clause 3, however they do qualify as being Scored under clause 1. Thus, they do count for 1 point as being Scored in a Floor Goal.