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Sorry everyone--I goofed up the directions. No wonder that people are confused. Corrected version and simple diagram below.

| SCORING REGION

WEST of line | EAST of line
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Also remember that Base is on the West side of the mat, and the Red Scoring region is on the East side of the mat...

Question: When does a robot earn credit for entering one of the Obstacle mission scoring regions?

Answer:

In order for the robot to earn points on the Obstacles mission, the robot must have "crossed completely over the west line of the scoring region, from the west only."

Per Rule 3, bullet 1, we must take this text literally whenever possible.

The literal meaning is: To earn points for entering an obstacle scoring region, there must be a moment when no part of the robot is WEST of the west boundary line of the scoring region (and all the other constraints apply, as described in the mission and Update 11). *** This applies to the entire robot and its vertical footprint.

Question: If the robot has completely cleared the west line of the purple region and is half way between the Purple region and the red region, what has it earned (for this attempt)?

Answer: Correct. The robot would be credited for having reached the purple scoring region, but would would not get credit (for this attempt) for reaching the red scoring region.

Question: If a robot crossed "completely over the line" into the purple region and then got totally confused and went back over the obstacle to the west, would it still be credited for having reached the purple region?

Answer: Yes. "Points given are permanent** even if the robot later leaves .... the region."

Question: Is the robot's score for the Obstacles mission the sum of the point values for each region it entered?

Answer: No. "Points are given only for the best result achieved."

This means that, when earned, the points for entering the Dark Green region replace the points for entering the Dark Blue region, etc. etc. and the points for entering the Red region replace the points for entering the Purple region.

Steve Scherr

VA/DC FLL Referee Advisor

Notes:

** The points are only "permanent" until they are replaced by better points for the mission.

*** "No part of the robot is WEST of the west boundary line" -- In FLL terms, that means that the robot is "completely out" of the area WEST of the line. In other words, during an Obstacles mission attempt, as long as the robot is still "in" the area WEST of the west boundary line, then it has not "crossed completely over" the line.

I agree that the "completely crossed over" scoring condition isn't "being in the area WEST of the line." But it's equivalent to "not being in the area WEST of the line," and that's how we'll check for when the scoring conditions are satisfied.