I like the change. Do we also want a change to 3.2.6 to make clear moving a robot by hand is not acceptable during a match?

I like the change. Do we also want a change to 3.2.6 to make clear moving a robot by hand is not acceptable during a match?

At the risk of being pedantic:

1. Does moving robots into the field during the time before the start signal or break fall under "match"?
2. Moving by hand is acceptable when moving robots out of the field, though I get your point

Additionally, maybe I should reword substituted in the rule change with taken out of the field. Marking a robot as substituted also implies that during timeout, robots can only be taken out of the field by a robot handler. It may also be confusing with the rule Each team has 5 free substitutions per halftime. Does a robot marked for substitution during timeout count towards this? I'd say no, but it's still confusing.

Edit: Or does it actually mean Each team has 5 free substitution INTENTS per halftime, not counting when a robot drives itself to the exchange area to be picked up while the game continues?

@tobiasheineken @g3force

I'd say, a substitution INTENT is free. You can revoke it without loosing anything:

A substitution intent can be revoked unless the game was not already halted for substitution.

Once the intent is accepted by the GC, its converted into a substitution (which allows for arbitrary many robots to substitute). This counts towards your substitution budget.

I'd also change "substituted" to sth like:

Any robot that has been physically interacted with during a timeout must be taken out of the field. It can be brought in again as outlined in <<Robot Substitution, Robot Substitution>>.

Do we also want a change to 3.2.6 to make clear moving a robot by hand is not acceptable during a match?

Probably worth adding.
"The robotic equipment has to be fully autonomous" also has some room for interpretation. One could argue, that this means that all robots must be able to move (what we used to imply so far), but that's quite implicit.

Does moving robots into the field during the time before the start signal or break fall under "match"?

I'd say that's not match.
However, if we would want to be really strict, we could ask teams to move all robots to the substitution area before the match, so that the robots are forced to move.
That would be easier, if we'd had an explicit substitution area, though. Because than we would not even care, if the robots would not move. We could consider this next year, when we evaluate such an area.

I reworded 4.4.2 Timeouts and added to 3.2.6 Autonomy

Looks good to me, thank you!