Answered: Gateway preloads

[team_dynamo]

With the preloads are you aloud to put them into your intake and just let them fall straight out. As long as it touches the robot before it goes in the goal it’s legal right?

[Karthik]

With the preloads are you aloud to put them into your intake and just let them fall straight out. As long as it touches the robot before it goes in the goal it’s legal right?

Let’s take a look at the applicable rule from the VEX Gateway Game Manual. I’ve bolded the pertinent sections.

<SG7> Any Scoring Objects introduced during the Match must be either gently placed on a Robot of your own color touching an Alliance Starting Tile or gently placed on an Alliance Starting Tile of your own color. The intent of this rule is to allow teams to introduce objects into play, but not to impart energy on the scoring object which will cause it to end up in a scored position. Violations of this rule will result in warning for the first offense. Subsequent offenses or an egregious first offense will result in a Disqualification.
• Match Loads may be introduced by a Driver or Coach at any point during the Match. Match Loads may only be introduced in the Interaction Zone. Violations will result in a Disqualification.
• Doubler Barrels and Negation Barrels may only be introduced by a Driver or Coach during the last 30 seconds of the Match. Doubler Barrels may only be introduced in the Interaction Zone. Negation Barrels may only be introduced in the Isolation zone. Violations will result in a Disqualification.

From what you described, it seems as though the human driver who released the Scoring Object would be imparting energy to cause the object to end up in a scored position, hence it would be illegal.

To put this all in simple terms, we want robots doing the scoring, not the humans.