Trackball location and RoboCoach signaling
I couldn't find a reference anywhere on the manual or this forum, so I'm assuming that the trackball random position is independently determined for each side of the overpass (there's no position mirroring or equivalence, such that knowing the position of a red trackball on your side of the overpass does not guarantee you know the position of the red trackball on the opponent side of the overpass).
Given that, suppose a team has got four hybrid actions:
a) Remove trackball in position 1 from the NEXT overpass;
b) Remove trackball in position 2 from the NEXT overpass;
c) Remove trackball in position 3 from the NEXT overpass;
d) It's a race!
Assuming the robot can quickly and reliably remove the ball from its overpass, would commanding the robot again to remove the trackball from the opponent's overpass (of course, always going counterclockwise) be legal?
It will be quite a feat to watch, and I'm pretty sure this follows the intent of the rules, although I'm not so sure about the letter.
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