No--each object that the robot retrieves from the field has to cross
>>into Base itself before the team members may pick it up.
>>
Under Rule 22, Touch Penalties, it says:
If you touch the active robot or anything it’s touching while: a
>>piece of CARGO is outside Base, you lose that piece of cargo, unless it was
>with
>>the robot the last time the robot left Base.
>>
Also, Rule 18, Handling Not Allowed says: You may not move or adjust anything
>
>>outside Base, before, during, or after the match.
>>
For the situation you described, the doctor (nurse) is a piece
>>of CARGO (rule 14--the robot has it for transport). That figure needs to
>cross
>>into base (some part of it over the boundary line), or else the referee will
>take
> >it off the field and out of play when the team touches the robot.
>>
There is one exception this year--when any part of the syringe crosses
>>into base, then the team may take the entire syringe, and the red and white
>blood
>>cells it is carrying into Base. (see the Mission description)
>>
Steve Scherr
VA/DC FLL Referee Advisor
>>
On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Viquar Shaikh wrote:
>>
>>
Hello
My question is regarding the nurse in base. When the robot grabs the nurse and
>
>>comes back to base, is it sufficient that the robot is in base, while the
>nurse
>>- still in the robot's grasp - is outside the base. Can the kids then pick
>up the
> >nurse from outside the base??
Thanks
Viquar
Team #8637
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