For RSC7 "Handling Robots during a Programming Skills Match". Is the robot allowed to reset to any of the 8 starting positions regardless where the robot started at first place? In such case, team could gain strategic advantage of using this rule for programming skills only.
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Starting positions in RSC7 "Handling Robots during a Programming Skills Match"
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RSC7 is partially quoted below, with a portion bolded for emphasis.
<RSC7> Handling Robots during a Programming Skills Match. A Team may handle their Robot as many times as desired during a Programming Skills Match.
a. Upon handling the Robot, it must be immediately brought back to any legal Starting Position.
There is no requirement in RSC7 for the Starting Position to be the same one in which they began the Match. Therefore, this would be legal.