Here's my read based on taking the rules literally:

D03 – Equipment – “Equipment” is everything you bring to a Match for Mission-related activity. 

D09 – Penalties – A “Penalty” is a deduction from your final score due to a specific action that is allowed but discouraged. Penalty values are found in the Missions. There are two types of Penalty: 

● Interruption Penalty – Caused by you Interrupting the Robot while it’s not completely in Safety. 

● Junk Penalty – Caused… 
• immediately – by each piece of equipment the Robot strands partly in Safety. 
• at the end of the Match – by each piece of equipment still stranded completely outside Safety.

So, if a junk penalty is only caused by stranded equipment, and equipment is the stuff that you bring to the match, then it stands to reason that the blue and yellow bars (which are not equipment by the definition) would not cause a junk penalty.

-Frank Levine




On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Bhagavan Pasula <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Parvathy,

My understanding is that there will no penalties for blue and yellow bars on the field. However you may get more points if they are moved to base and/or put into sorter. There will penalties for black bar though. Another aspect is bars on the field will cause difficulties for robot to move around so it's advantage to move them.

Thx
-Bhag


On Sep 13, 2015, 12:54:33 PM, Parvathy Krishnan wrote:
Cecilia,

You don't have to, but you will get more points if you collected the building and large toy package bars and sort them as well - is my understanding.

Related question- will there be penalties for blue and yellow building bars that are left on the field?

Thanks
Parvathy

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> On Sep 13, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Yatou <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> My team has a question regarding mission 4. Hope anyone can help us.
>
> "For mission 4, do we sort the blue and black bars that are already in the sorter or do we have to put all the bars disturbed into the sorter and sort all of them?"
>
> Thanks,
> Cecilia
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