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Official Q&A: VEX IQ Robotics Competition 2024-2025: Rapid Relay
2414: Rapid Loading During Elimination and Finals Matches
<SG5> Q&A 2137 addresses <RSC4> Rapid Loading differences during Skills Matches (Autonomous and Driving) and states that the balls must be removed from the zone they are introduced into (Zone 2) by robot action. Does this apply to Elimination and Qualification matches as well or is it legal to introduce a Ball in one starting zone and have the robot remove it from another starting zone (i.e., introduce the ball into Starting Zone 2 and roll it into Starting Zone 1 where, by robot action, it is removed from Starting Zone 1)?
A Ball introduced into Starting Zone 2 has left / been removed from Starting Zone 2 once the Ball has fully left the vertical projection of Starting Zone 2.
If the Ball is introduced into Starting Zone 2 by the Loader and rolls fully out of Starting Zone 2 into Starting Zone 1, the Ball has been removed from Starting Zone 2 via means other than a robot action, making this a violation of <SG5>.