Answered: SG5 Clarification

[B-Kinney]

According to <SG5>:

Robots may not intentionally or accidentally, indirectly or directly, remove Cones from an opponent’s Stack.

And according to the definition of Stacked, and Note 2 (emphasis mine):

A Cone is Stacked on a Goal if it is not touching a Robot of the same color Alliance as the Goal and either:
a) Fully nested on a Goal (see Figures 5 & 6).
b) Fully nested on a Stacked Cone (see Figures 7 & 8).

Note 2: By these definitions, if a Robot is touching a Cone on a Mobile Goal, that Cone and any above it will not count as being Stacked

Would this make it legal for a robot to remove a cone that is fully nested on an opponent’s mobile goal (or fully nested on a cone that is legally Stacked on that goal), but is also contacting the opponent’s robot, and is therefore not itself Stacked?

In particular, if a robot was carrying a mobile goal with a Stack of cones, but was touching a cone in the middle of the stack, could an opponent remove a cone from the top?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

[VEX_GDC]

The August 17th manual update contained the following revision to the verbiage of SG5:

Robots may not intentionally or accidentally, indirectly or directly, remove Cones from an opponent’s Stack (i.e. Cones that are fully nested above an opponent’s upright Goal).

As such, this would not be legal.