As I was reading the game manual I got very confused when reading Section 5 - Robot Skills. I know typo’s happen and you do find and fix them quickly typically but this felt a bit bigger than that. Under the Robot Skills Challenge Description it states:
“All 24 red Rings and all 5 Mobile Goals are used, but some start in different locations”
Then has this image where it indeed shows 24 rings.
I assume the middle three rings in front of the red alliance wall stake are not supposed to be there. I thought I would bring this to attention so it can be fixed, receive clarification that my assumption is correct, and clear confusion for anyone else who might notice this.
According to Section 5 of the new manual, the rules state “All 24 red Rings and all 5 Mobile Goals are used,” but the attached diagram showed directly below show 27 rings in play
In addition, shows this image showing what robots can expand to, but they demonstrate robot 2 as breaking the plane of all three tiers, not two like the manual states
Ok so I THINK (I am not sure so pls don’t go after me) that you robot can be in three “zones” (what I would call the area between the lines) but, you cannot be touching more than two of the lines at a time. The first example is ok because it touches just the floor (which is considered a level) and the first level of the ladder. Example two is ok because it only touches the first and second level of the ladder. But example three is not ok because it touches the floor, the first level of the ladder AND the second level of the ladder. Likewise example four is touching the first, second and third level of the ladder. I hope this makes sense and helps
I feel like there is a typo in the AWP part of the manual, because it says neither robot touching or crossing the plane of the starting line, but then says one robot has to be contacting the ladder. Im just wondering if this is just something im not understanding and if so, could someone please explain it.
I have a question about two of the drawings in the appendix in relation to rings and stakes. The ring specification drawing shows the rings as having a 3.00" diameter for the hole in the ring. The next drawing (Goal Specifications) shows the top part of the stakes having a width of 3.56.
Just curious to see if this might be an error, or if rings are intended to be “forced” down onto the stakes.
Because the floor is considered a level, you can essentially see the small amount of squish your wheels have on the floor as breaking the plane of the floor
Here is a mock-up without those 3 rings in the center on the 270 side (AI erasers are nice). I like to laminate these images to help students set the field correctly at practice and tournaments. It is pretty helpful.
random question but if you flipped a mobile goal and put in in the corner on the top of the latter so that the other teams couldn’t get it would that be legal. Don’t see final rule on it
I was wondering how the alliance wall stakes are played in skills and I was wondering if SG10 rules over the alliance wall stakes in skills, implying that sense you’re playing as red you can use the red wall stake but not the blue one. Let me know if I’m missing a rule or if you have any thoughts on this. Thanks!
SG10: Robots may not directly or indirectly interact with the opponent’s Alliance Wall Stake. This includes both Scoring and/or removing Rings of either color. For the purposes of this rule, “Score” (and “remove”) means causing them to satisfy (or no longersatisfy) the criteria listed in SC3. SC3 being clarification on what a “scored” ring is.
I think it means that both robots must move away from their starting position. They both start crossing the starting line, They shouldn’t be crossing it at the end of auton period.
Going off of DRow’s LinkedIn profile, he manages “customer experience” (I think that’s just the VEX website and publicity kind of), so he usually gets the details of stuff ahead of time.
Plus, he’s DRow-ning in knowledge.
