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Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:56:26 -0400
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This is a good question, and shows how the actual play of the game can
yield a lot of insights that I won't think of before seeing it in action.

  At this time, my ruling is mostly no, the Careers leniency does not allow
you generally to straighten out stuff in the red sorter hopper.

The leniency exception reads:

Unclog *east chute blockage* by hand, and/or put *mis-sorted bars *into
their correct bin, including bars that didn’t land in any bin.

The hopper is not the east chute, and the bars waiting to be sorted have
not yet been mis-sorted, so the leniency does not apply.  On the other
hand, a bar that made it onto the conveyor section and jammed up against
the entry to the east chute ought to be adjustable with the Careers
leniency, since that clearly is an east chute blockage.

In addition the mission comment says "please use the R10 leniency for *Model
errors*."  Bars that were unloaded by the Robot into the red hopper and end
up askew are not a *Model* error, but rather an outcome of direct robot
action, so this reiterates why it would not be appropriate to allow the
team to straighten out the bars in the hopper.


I'll have to check to see if model operation won't jiggle this kind of
misalignment into place so that the bar can go on the conveyor belt, but I
can imagine circumstances where it would not.

I'll also bump this question up the chain for more discussion.


Steve Scherr

Virginia-DC FLL Referee Advisor

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:24 PM, CJ Shier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an inquiry regarding the manual unclogging of the sorter.  If a
> career person is within the sorter area, the leniency clause states that we
> are able to unclog with our hands any bars that clog the sorter.  My
> specific question is does this include misaligned bars waiting to be
> sorted?  In other words, if the bars are unloaded and land perpendicular to
> the conveyor belt, thus rendering the bar in the wrong position to sort, is
> this considered clogging the operation?  Can we align the bars manually in
> the proper direction for sorting (in the horizontal direction)?
>
> Thanks!!!
> Carey
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