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

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2228: With a Subsystem 3 change, can the inspection size orientation also change?


Matthew Williams (Event Partner)
26-Oct-2024

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At a recent competition I had a team who had an alternate setup for autonomous. It was a subsystem 3 that was an extension that touched the inside of the wall so they did not need to program a turn like in the image below. They tried demonstrating this in inspection and were told by Head Judge and a on site Rec Foundation employee this was not a legal size. If measured as separate setups both were within size restrictions meeting SG1 and SG2. Based on the part they removed and added the robot needed to be put in different orientations to fit though, one direction for driving and one for autonomous like the <SG1>picture. Is there a requirement that when a subsystem 3 is changed it needs to be oriented in the same direction and meet size requirements, or is it ok to be oriented differently to meet size restrictions?

Answered by committee
31-Oct-2024

There is no rule that requires different Robot configurations to fit in the Starting Zone in the same orientation. As long as each configuration is inspected, fits within the Starting Zone (<SG1>), and does not exceed the maximum legal size (<SG2>), this is legal.