Answered: Driver Loading to Robot from Outside Loading Zone

[Tim177]

Hello, Karthik!
I would like to know if our team is interpreting <SG6> correctly when it says that

Any Scoring Objects introduced during the Match as Driver Control Loads must be either gently placed on a Robot of your own color touching the Loading Zone or gently entered into the Loading Zone of your own color, by a Student Drive Team Member during the Driver Controlled Period.

So, when our robot is sitting on the starting tile as shown in the attachment, we would need to drop the ball onto the floor in front of the robot so the robot can intake the ball. This requires that the ball touch the field outside the loading zone. Are we correct that is an ILLEGAL driver control load?
Thanks!
-Tim Sierk, on behalf of the Twisted Botz

[Karthik]

You are correct, this would be illegal. Driver Controlled Loads must be entered onto the Loading Zone, or onto a Robot contacting the Loading Zone. They may not be entered onto a tile that is outside of the Loading Zone.