No, absolutely not correct.  There is no point over the Truck Guide that is also completely east of the Truck Guide.


The Transport mission is clear and not deceptive.  Here's how I see a team's mission development process working:

Teams can load the Yellow Bin onto the Truck by pushing the Truck down the guide.  That's 50 points.

Teams can keep pushing the Truck until or past the end of the Guide, so that the Bin is completely east of the Truck Guide, and the Yellow Bin dumps off.  That's 60 points.

Then Teams can be annoyed and try to figure out how to score both.  Yes, thinking out of the box is usually needed to take that extra step, as the Game Updates and my cryptic comments indicated.

If a Team doesn't have a workable idea to satisfy both scoring options for Transport, then they can optimize their score by choosing to go fast for 50 points or far for 60 points and work on other stuff.  The Robot Game is full of opportunities for different strategic choices by teams, and there is no pre-defined optimal path through the missions. 

Steve Scherr

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Thomas (Tweeks) Weeks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Oh.. is that possible without lifting the truck up and over the dump-tab at the end of the track?  If so, I didn't even realize this (nor did anyone I asked).  If scoring both 50+60 is possible simply by detecting that final black line and stopping at that point.. that REALLY needs to be spelled out as a goal.  Trying to decipher intent through cold hard rules is very difficult. Our season is over and we're still just now (as a group) deciphering intent of the mission goals.

Can someone in the know let us know.. was the intent of the truck mission to push it to a specific point.. so that the load was not dumped, but still east of the guide rail? If so.. no one I spoke to (including the refs) seemed to perceive or communicate this desired end state.



Tweeks
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