Answered: Removing Skyrise From Autoloader After Placed

[Harrison]

Today at SoCal states, a ref gave us an infraction for removing a skyrise piece from the autoloader. Right after this, I looked through the rulebook to find SG5

There can only ever be one Skyrise Section in an Autoloader at any one given time. There will be
one Skyrise Section in the Autoloader to start the Match. Additional Skyrise Sections will be loaded by a
Student Drive Team Member into the Autoloader. Robots may not contact a Skyrise Section if it is being
touched by a human. Minor violations of this rule that do not affect the match will result in a warning.
Egregious (match affecting) offenses will result in a Disqualification. Teams that receive multiple
warnings may also receive a Disqualification at the head referee’s discretion.

and SG9

Robots may not interfere with an opposing Alliance’s Building of Skyrise Sections in any way. The
following actions are all illegal.
a) Contacting an opponent’s Autoloader and/or contents. (See Figure 22)
b) Contacting an opponent’s Skyrise Base and/or Skyrise. (See Figure 23)
c) Contacting an opponent’s Alliance Starting Tile or the grey foam field tile between the two
Alliance Starting Tiles and located in the corner of the field. (See Figures 24-25)
d) Contacting an opponent’s Robot that is contacting the foam field tiles mentioned in c) and not
contacting any other foam field tiles. (See Figure 26)
e) Contacting any Scoring Objects that are contacting the foam field tiles mentioned in c) and
not contacting any other foam field tiles.
f) Depositing Scoring Objects in/on the opponent’s foam field tiles mentioned in c) or on Robots
or Scoring Objects touching said tiles.

being the only two rules pertaining to autoloader usage. Provided we did not violate either of these two rules, we should have been in the clear to remove the skyrise section from the autoloader, is this correct? Just to clarify, our bot wasn’t touching the section.

[Karthik]

Today at SoCal states, a ref gave us an infraction for removing a skyrise piece from the autoloader. Right after this, I looked through the rulebook to find SG5 and SG9 being the only two rules pertaining to autoloader usage. Provided we did not violate either of these two rules, we should have been in the clear to remove the skyrise section from the autoloader, is this correct? Just to clarify, our bot wasn’t touching the section.

Yes, it is legal to remove a Skyrise Section from the Autoloader at any time during the Match.

[Harrison]

Thank You so much!

[Karthik]

Thank You so much!

You’re welcome!