we have witnessed several teams move yellow balls from original placements from under the bars. in the past there has been variance "within an inch", but that information is not present in this year's manual. Can a ball be "cheated" this inch?
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Official Q&A: VIQC 2021-2022: Pitching In
Starting placement of balls
Answered by committee
The 1" variance can be found in rule G16:
<G16> Be prepared for minor field variance. Field tolerances may vary by as much as ±1” unless otherwise specified. Teams must design Robots accordingly.
With that being said, manually adjusting the Field to "push the limit" of this variance for strategic reasons is outside the intent of the rule. A G3-esque analogy would be for a Team to lower a Hanging Bar by 0.9" in order to make their Hanging mechanism work.
Head Referees should check Ball placement prior to the start of each Match, and re-position any that are in question into the correct starting locations.