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Marty's points are excellent and spot on! 

Only thing to add here is I would review the rules 1 and 2 on page 20. 

A robot that is partly inside home that is retrieved by the technicians may lose mission models and will lose a precision token. 

You should keep that in mind when planning your strategy on how to return home. 

Michael Brown
Referee advisor
VA-DC FLL



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1. Lines that mark the borders of areas are considered part of the area (p21, point 3)

2. You can put the audience members just about anywhere you can program your robot to get them to. However, you won’t be eligible for the bonus on M04 MASTERPIECE if your art piece is touching an audience member.

3. M14 requires that audience members be completely in, which means 100%. The referee isn’t going to get out a laser micrometer or anything, but if an audience member’s hand is clearly out of the scoring area then the rules are quite clear - no points.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 9:32 AM Christine Carroll <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello Coaches, Refs and Other Amazing FLL People out there! As always, this listserv has been an invaluable resource this season. Thank you!

Our trio of teams from RMA Robotics has a few questions. My apologies if these have already been answered elsewhere...

1. There is a thick blue line that outlines both home spaces delineating its perimeter. If the bot or its attachment is within this blue line, does that count as inside home? Or once you hit the blue line, is that out?

2. Can the audience members be on top of the Masterpiece artwork that is on the pedestal? Note, the would not be attached, just balanced.

3. If an audience member is just a couple millimeters outside of the delivery zone, would they be counted out? For example, the tippity top of their head is out? In other words, how stringent is the definition of "out" as our team seemed to think it 95% of the minifig was inside, it should be counted as in.

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