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Official Q&A: VEX IQ Robotics Competition 2024-2025: Rapid Relay

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2146: Starting Location Requirements

3373A
21-Sep-2024

<SG1>

Per <SG1>, part (a) and part (b), is the robot allowed to overhang the wall in any capacity prior to starting the match?

IE - if the robot wheel is touching the inside of the Field Perimeter Wall but an attached motor is overhanging above the field perimeter, is this allowed? Or do the field walls function as an infinitely tall barrier that cannot be crossed for Pre-match setup?

SG1  
Answered by committee
26-Sep-2024

Clause B of rule <R4> and clause A of rule <SG1> both specify (bold added here for emphasis) that at the start of each Match, the Robot must fit within the volume of a Starting Zone, which is defined as:

Starting Zone – One of two areas of the Field where Robots may begin the Match. Starting Zones are infinitely tall 3-dimensional volumes, bound by the inside of the Field Perimeter walls and the inside edges of the black lines marked by yellow VEX IQ beams. See Figure SZ-1.

To answer your three questions directly:

  1. The Robot cannot overhang the wall in its starting position.
  2. No part of the Robot, even a motor, can expand over or beyond the field perimeter at the start of a Match.
  3. Yes, the inside edge of the field perimeter corresponds to an infinitely tall plane that cannot be crossed by a Robot in its pre-Match setup.