Is this Legal?
 

is it legal to put a frisbee on another robot to earn them penalties for too many disks held?

Re: Is this Legal?
 

Yes, but then search the Q&A for a recent item regarding G30 and G18-1. If you do it so it looks like a strategy, you might get a yellow card.

Now ask yourself why you want to even think about doing this?

Re: Is this Legal?
 

This shouldn't even be considered...

Gracious Professionalism?

Re: Is this Legal?
 

I'd spend more time and efforts on actually building a robot to win matches than to make your opponents lose as the primary strategy.

Re: Is this Legal?
 

it isn't the main goal, just a thought

Re: Is this Legal?
 

it could be a way to win, even if our shooter fails out

Re: Is this Legal?
 

Sorry, I got a couple of Team Updates and Q&A's mixed up, going just by memory. It's not a yellow card, but it is a technical and the other alliance won't get a penalty.

Given the ineffectiveness of this strategy and how it goes totally against GP, the other part of my answer deserves being repeated and emphasized.

Re: Is this Legal?
 

Yes, it does not follow gracious professinalism, and it is not very moral, but we all have to expect to see it happen. Same thing with teams that will hang out around the base of the pyramid, and wait for opposing robots to come within range so that they can score a penalty. Everyone does it, so we might as well expect it, but it is a definant gray area in the rules.

Re: Is this Legal?
 

I would think that one through. Not necessarily a prime example of Gracious Professionalism or Coopertition.

Re: Is this Legal?
 

100% illegal.
Teams have used strategies against this rule (this rule has been in every manual as far as I remember) and have not been penalized, but these strategies were generally staying at a safe zone and "accidentally" bumping into opposing robots as they pass by, and were due to other strategies failing and were not designed for. If you design your robot to throw frisbees at opposing robots, you will probably be penalized.
Also, while a strategy like this might get you high up the ranking board, but it will not earn you the respect of other teams around you. I suggest trying something else.

Re: Is this Legal?
 

It's not a gray area. I have seen an alliance red carded b/c one member purposely caused a member of opposing alliance to repeatedly foul. To fight and strategize so that opponents are forced into bad decisions so they might foul, no problem. But to purposely intend multiple fouls, red card. In the red card match I refer to robot 1 contacted robot 2 in an illegal area, giving robot 1 a foul. But then robot 2 purposely continued to contact robot 1 to cause more fouls. Robot 2 and their alliance were red carded.

Re: Is this Legal?
 

no you will be penalised if the ref thinks it looked intentional

Re: Is this Legal?
 

If you have a mechanism designed to get other robots overloaded with frisbees, the head ref will consider it intentional.