First time poster who has a question about preloads & driver loads in the skills challenges. The rules state the following:
Prior to the start of each Robot Skills Match, each Robot must use its one (1) Star available as a Robot Skills Preload. A Star is considered to be legally preloaded if it is touching the Robot, not touching any other grey foam tiles, and is fully within the field perimeter.
Robot Skills Loads may be loaded at any point during a Robot Skills Match.
Robots have to begin the skill run with 1 star preloaded per , but my question is this:
Once the skill run begins, can additional driver Skill Loads (stars or cubes) be loaded onto the robot (if it is capable of holding more than 1 star/cube) when the robot is in the starting square? My interpretation of seems to indicate that multiple driver loads can be added at any time once the timer starts (the phrase in “at any point” seems pretty unambiguous). For example, if I begin the match with the one star preload, can I add additional star(s) and/or cubes once the timer starts so that multiple scoring objects can be loaded onto on the robot before attempting to score the original preload?
Hope my question is clear. If not, I’ll attempt to clarify…Thanks in advance for your help!