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Great defensive strategy in some cases...a team can possibly take out opposing alliances top scoring bot now with just a yellow even if obviously intentional (and no red?).
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That's not the case at all. First, a yellow card means the "strategy" would obviously only work once.
Secondly, <G48> still exists - you would earn two yellow cards in a single match. Does that become a red card?
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Why would the GDC reduce a basic level of protection all robots should benefit from to protect hundreds of hours of hard labor and thousands of dollars worth of equipment?
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Because FIRST doesn't want to give out red cards to a team with an arm holding a tube that just brushes against another robot?
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Certainly means at the very least teams need an extra robust level of lexan shrouds protecting their vitals, and a minimum level of exposed wiring on their mechanisms...or maybe we should design a titanium shroud now?
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Yellow cards are not trivial things! There is a BIG PENALTY for doing something. Why is that the end of the world now, just because they need to do it twice to get disqualified instead of once?