In looking through the rules some more, how do these rules apply to this situation?
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<G31> ROBOTS, HOSTBOTS, nor MINIBOTS may not touch anything outside the FIELD boundary. Violation: Disablement
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FIELD – the 27-foot by 54-foot carpeted playing area, bounded by two ALLIANCE WALLS and a Guardrail System.
One could claim that touching ubertubes on the netting should have resulted in immediate disablement!
But perhaps this rule is
really the one that could have been applied to make the rest moot:
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<G35> GAME PIECES that exit the FIELD will be placed back on the FIELD approximately at the point of exit, at the earliest safe opportunity, by FIELD staff.
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GAME PIECE – any one of the four plastic inflated objects used to score in LOGO MOTION.
Even though the rules seem to indicate this *should* have happened throughout the season, if it was not common for official FIRST events to return regular game pieces resting on the netting back to the field, then it is natural for the IRI folks to follow suit.
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Originally Posted by Kearse
That being said, the IRI reffing staff may have made a different call (2 penalties to cancel out the 6 given by the ubertube possibly). I can't see it going without penalization though.
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