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Originally Posted by Leav
After thinking about it some more, i'm now sure that it would mean a yellow card for BlueBot, since he must have known that pushing BlueBot into the Redzone would mean a penalty. Thus if he purposely pushed him into the Redzone, regardless of his intent (which was to reach the grid, not to have BlueBot incur a penalty), he must receive a yellow card since he knew his actions would mean a penalty for BlueBot.
If this analysis is correct than it is imbalanced and may indeed be an advantage for BlueBot!
consider:
Bluebot on the edge of the RedZone, zipping up and down the border to block RedBot. RedBot has two options: he can wait for the match to end, or he could try and force his way in. if he forces his way in Bluebot get's a penalty, but RedBot get's a yellow card!
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I think you messed up the colors a bit here. Anyway, I don't agree that the yellow card is automatic. The rule says "strategies aimed at taking advantage of this exception will result in a YELLOW CARD", not "strategies that knowingly invoke this exception will result in a YELLOW CARD".
If the referee believes that it is part of your strategy to cause opposing bots to get penalties.
then you get a yellow card. If, however, you have a legitimate strategic need other than that, and as a result you push an opposing bot into your zone, you will
not receive a yellow card.
Reaching a scoring peg immediately behind a defending robot, for example should be allowed (according to my understanding of the new rules). Since reaching a scoring peg is a legitimate strategic goal, your strategy is therefore to score, not to cause penalties.
If, however, you were to do the same thing while not holding a game piece, you are quite clearly only trying to cause a penalty, and thus
will receive a yellow card.
This kind of judgment call is exactly what the driver meeting is for. There we can get the Head Referee's own take on rules like this and get a good feeling for when yellow cards will be given.
The only problem is that you can't really plan in advance regarding this rule.