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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Regarding the can't be forced into a penalty thing....I seem to recall a qualifying match in which 2168 was given the death penalty for blocking a triple in which they were pushed into a bridge, and I do not believe any bot on the bridge ever touched them. I might be wrong about the details, though. I'd love to watch vid of that specific match again.
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I'm not sure if this is the match you're speaking of, but at least twice we called the death penalty for a robot that set up "too close" to the bridge for the sole purpose of interfering with the robot being able to get on the bridge and balance. This was the interpretation that was used at CMP, to counter the so-called "Cincinnati defense". And since only 2 of the ref crew were at CMP, maybe we didn't get the interpretation completely correct. Stu attempted to explain it at the driver meeting Friday. The interpretation derived from the "otherwise interfere" wording in [G25].