Good answer from Stuart. For any object that needs to be shifted
to a different place on the table, the route, and whether that route
includes a stop in Base, is entirely up to the team.
See Ruling 18 in the Q&A:
RULING 18 - Handling Models In
Base
Confirmation: The robot is allowed to go
get a model from the field and bring it back to Base, where you're
allowed to handle it. Then you can send the robot out to put it in its
final placement.
Be sure to check that Q&A page every week or so! There's not
a huge number of comments (as there were last year) but the rulings
and clarifications already number into the 20's, and more will surely
be posted before the tournaments. Also be sure to read back through
the mission instructions and rules every once in a while, as new items
may have become relevant depending on the strategies adopted by your
team.
Regards,
Mike
Avani -
Scoring for mission completion is based on the state
of the table at the end of the match. If you bring a loose model
(e.g., the Ice Buoy) back to base before delivering it to the research
area, that is totally acceptable.
As long as you don't break any rules you are allowed
to be as creative as you wish. Last year, at least one team
"delivered the truck to the farm" by hanging it on the hydroelectric
dam. The mission said that the truck had to go TO the farm (not
that it had to touch it) so even though having a truck suspended in
mid-air off a dam doesn't make any real-world sense, the fact that
the back end of the truck was over the farm fulfilled the letter of
the mission. The fact that there was an oil barrel in the back
of the truck that was over the farm fulfilled part of a different
mission that required that a barrel be delivered TO the farm but
specifically NOT touching it.
That same year, one of the missions was to deliver a
"wave-turbine" to the ocean in the northwest corner. The wave
turbine was to be designed and built by the team and it had to have
moving parts. One enterprising team simply parked the robot in
the ocean at the end of the match. The robot was built by the
kids and had moving parts so it was a "wave turbine" as far as
scoring was concerned.
Encourage your kids to "think outside the box" and
they just might surprise themselves!
Note: The rules say that you are not allowed to
"break dual-lock" so you can't have the robot bring the house back
to base so you can fiddle with it there and then return it to its
original spot.
Stuart
From: First Lego League Discussion
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Avani
Saini
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:47 PM
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Subject: [VADCFLL-L] breaking the task
I was
wonderting if we are allowed to break tasks. eg collect some items and
bring them to base. As part of next task, drop them to the
destination. Just trying to make some tasks simple this way and have
different attachments for collecting and dropping.
Avani
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