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Official Q&A: VRC 2018-2019: Turning Point

Usage Guidelines All Questions

168: Making scoring go a little faster


Josh Tremblay (Event Partner)
4-Dec-2018

I was wondering if it was allowed to paint the Detent a different color to help facilitate scoring both autonomous and end of match a little faster. The black on black makes it very difficult from a far to see if the Pointer is out of the Detent. While yes the Flags are there to make it more clear, when the flag is turned just a little bit and the Pointer is out of the Detent refs would have to get up close to the flag to see if it is scored one way or the other. This slows down match times and match cycles in turn. This would provide no change to the current field set other than a color difference. We have orange acrylic paint ready to change the color on our practice field but if this is allowed we would change our 4 competition fields as well.

Thank you.

Answered by Game Design Committee

Yes, this is legal, provided that it does not impact Robot or field performance in any way. To help ensure this, we would advise painting with care and moderation, only on the outside face of the Detent. We would not advise letting any paint get on to the surfaces that slide against each other, or the inside surface that is against the PVC pipe.