[donnie99]

Addressing two points in this thread:

1. A "Hammer" or "Tomahawk" is thrown exactly as the name would suggest, over the head. This is not the direction a disc would travel in a flat path. The purpose of this type of throw is to travel at a greater height than distance. This is why human players would use this to throw over the alliance wall. Robots could possibly throw this way. As every new year comes, some team somewhere will make it happen if they try hard enough.

2. The rules state that you may block people at any point as long as they are not touching their pyramid, their safe zone next to the feeder station, and you do not pin them for more than 5 seconds. Although it would be against the spirit of FIRST and stopping the flow of the game, it is legal at this point in the season before any rule updates to block the feeder station. This is something that if seen at a competition, would most likely be changed for the rest of the season.