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Official Q&A: VEX IQ Robotics Competition 2024-2025: Rapid Relay

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2557: Rapid loading rule violation

22320A
19-Feb-2025

During our last VEX IQ competition, we noticed a significant rule violation that led to an unusual ruling. During autonomous a team was rapid loading from Starting Zone 1 instead of Starting Zone 2, which violates Rule <RSC4>. However, when we raised this issue, the judges allowed the team to redo both of their autonomous runs despite Rule <T7> stating that match replays should only be granted under specific conditions.

This raises important questions: Should match replays be granted for rule violations that went unnoticed?

RSC4   T7  
Answered by committee
20-Feb-2025

As stated in rule <T7>,

Match replays (i.e., playing a Match over again from its start) are at the discretion of the Event Partner and Head Referee.

The examples in <T7> are not all-encompassing, and the Head Referee and Event Partner can declare a Match be replayed at their discretion.