[JB987]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

That's not the case at all. First, a yellow card means the "strategy" would obviously only work once.

(Once may be all that is needed if you take out a top scorer?)

Secondly, <G48> still exists - you would earn two yellow cards in a single match. Does that become a red card?

("Repeated or egregious violations of this rule will earn the offending ROBOT a YELLOW CARD."...doesn't say repeated violation earns a red card, it says repeateted violations receive a yellow card,Chris.)

"Violation: PENALTY and potential YELLOW CARD"



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?

(From the blue box..."A ROBOT with a mechanism outside of its BUMPER PERIMETER may be penalized under
this rule if it appears they are using that MECHANISM to purposefully contact another
ROBOT inside its FRAME PERIMETER. Regardless of intent, a ROBOT with a
MECHANISM outside its BUMPER PERIMETER that causes damage to another ROBOT
inside of its FRAME PERIMETER will be penalized." So a penalty is to be assigned regardless of intent per this explanation, a yellow at most which a team may be willing to live with, especially for a high stakes qualifier late in the rounds.


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?

(Addressed above)

I am just discussing what could happen...Fortunately the vast majority of teams out there wouldn't consider intentional damage to another's robot.