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I don't believe that the rules say anything about POSSESING an opponents ring, just scoring it.

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In some games, competitors make tradeoffs to gain an advantage, but in many other games, intentionally breaking a rule just because the normal penalty won't hurt you is considered straight-out cheating.

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So, theoretiocally, you could posses two or more of your opponents rings, and the only penalty you could get is a 10 pointer for having more than one ringer.

Or you could knock over any of their rings in your home zome without a penalty.

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I was trying to say that rules <g23> and g<48> do not conflict because <g23> refers to how the ringers move through the chute, towards field only. <g48> refers to the different actions that a Human Player can do, either push a ringer through the chute or throwing them over the wall.

Rule <g22> is only for ringers that exit the field on the sides. <g23> and <g22> both refer to ringers going onto the field but from different areas.

Rules Question
 

Does it say any where in the rules that we cant knock down our opponents ringers after/during the Autonomous mode.

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rule G20, bottom of page 6 in section 7 gives all the details

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I believe that the question refers to the ringers that are leaning against the player station wall at the beginning of the match.

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<G20>De-scoring - ROBOTS may not remove RINGERS or KEEPERS once they are HANGING.
If a RINGER or KEEPER is moved out of a HANGING configuration after the POSSESSING
ROBOT has released it, it is still considered HANGING. If a ROBOT incidentally removes a
RINGER or KEEPER from the SPIDER LEG on which it was HANGING (e.g. knocks it off
while placing another GAME PIECE), a 10-point penalty will be assessed. Obviously
intentional removal of a RINGER or KEEPER will result in a disqualification of the offending
team.

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i think the guy was asking if the legs are in motion or not after the movement of the rack.

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I don't know if that's what the original poster meant, but I'd sure like to know what the rule on that is. Touching an opponent's game piece is legal, "herding" multiple game pieces is not. Is knocking them down going to be counted as herding, since you'll probably end up pushing them together?

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I believe that if you knock each one down individually it would technically be legal, but i feel that this is a question for the Q&A.

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I was talking about the 9 ringers that were leaning on your side of the field when the game starts. There isnt a rule saying that you cant knock down your opponents ringers is there?

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An intentional walk in baseball or sacrificing a piece in chess are not breaking rules. However, an intentional delay of game or pass interference penalty in football, or an intentional foul in basketball (as in, when you foul someone to stop the clock and get the ball back) are definitely in violation of the rules, but they can be smart, and they are not necessarily ingracious. Doing ridiculous stunts after scoring a touchdown (think Chad Johnson or Terrell Owens) just because the $25k penalty doesn't mean much to you is ingracious; it's about breaking the rules because you're a jerk, not because it's part of the competition.

In any case, <G20> says that intentional descoring is a DQ. If it were only a 10 point penalty, I would plan on doing it, I would plan on seeing it done, and I wouldn't feel it ingracious on either side.

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I have found a very interesting/disturbing problem.

The rules are very clear about possessing multiple tubes. My question then becomes... every team is required to have a flag above their robot. I understand this isn't GP, but that isn't the question at hand. If a team were to place a ringer on another teams flag, I believe this constitute possession of a ringer for that team, and thus they would incur the 10 pt penalty every time they picked up another ringer.

This is clearly against the intent of the game, but I want it to get out there well before regionals start.

Possible solutions to this problem:

• Remove flags from robots
• Don't count ringers possessed by flags as in the possession of a robot (creates other problems)
• Penalize teams for putting ringers there (needs to be severe enough as a deterant)
• Yellow Card? (utilizes a new rule! Yeah!)

I can't say any of these are perfect solutions, but I think that this needs to be addressed as it could cause major problems during the competition.

Obviously something needs to be done, otherwise we'll end up playing a massive game of pin the tail on the donkey, err drop the ring on the robot.

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2 questions actually

1. If your robot gets disabled/breaks down in your opponents end zone, do you still receive the penalty at the "end game"?

2. If your opponent blocks you from leaving their end zone, and forces you to stay in there, do you receive a penalty during the "end game"?