[liam.larkin]

We (my team) have been going back and forth as well with these exact questions. If I may give you my personnal philosophy on this. The GDC and FIRST in general are attempting to design all games so they maximize entertainment value. I chuckle at this a bit since Dean spends a great deal of time and effort bashing or maybe I should say critiquing the entertainment industry.

With this is mind the game rules are designed in such a way to impede the ability of an opponent to stop a capable robot. This is why I have preached and will continue to preach that the best plan is as you said in your comments to simply stay away from these scenerios. Additionally, I am not sure if there is a way to properly construct a question to answer your questions. The Q&A forum while a bit ambiguous I would have to say is right in the way they answered some of the questions. Each scenerio has its own variables and it is tough if not impossible to predict or to make a ruling.

As an additional note I always find a lot of teams take a long time trying to exercise (strategize) different scenerios. However, my opinion as a former driver when I was in High School and now a Coach. The game is played much quicker and much finer in competition and much of that strategizing goes out the window. I becomes a match by match, instant by instant, sort of thing.

Sorry for the long windness. I do enjoy these hypotheticals though