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Official Q&A: VEX V5 Robotics Competition 2024-2025: High Stakes

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2387: Own color ring leaving the field and AWP


8889A
13-Dec-2024

In rule <SC8> regarding the scoring of Autonomous Win Points, one of the criteria is given as "has not broken any rules during the Autonomous Period". In <SG4>, the title of "Keep Scoring Objects in the field" suggests that the removal of any ring from the field results in the loss of the AWP by SC8, but the text of the rule never mentions rings of the offending robot's own alliance, which suggests that the removal of a ring of the same alliance should not result in the loss of the AWP. We have had it ruled both ways at different competitions so far.

If a robot on the red alliance removes a red ring from the field, does that result in an automatic loss of AWP by SC8 and SG4?

Answered by committee
19-Dec-2024

Removing a Ring of your own Alliance color is not a Violation of <SG4>, which applies only to Mobile Goals and to Rings of the opposing Alliance color. If a Robot on the red Alliance removes a red Ring from the Field, no rule has been broken.