Answered: Starting placement

[Shadowfox99]

When we place our bots on the field and set up for the match starts as long as your bot is in the 18 inch limit and is touching the starting bar can your bot cross the white line?

[VEX_GDC]

Let’s take a look at rule SG1, quoted here for reference:

<SG1> At the beginning of each Match, each Robot must be placed such that it is touching the Alliance’s Starting Bar, not touching any Scoring Object other than those permitted by SG2 and not touching another Robot.

There are no mentions of the white tape line in this rule; thus, this is legal.