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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54
In 2008, this was exactly the case, with similar rules for an 80" cylinder. If you fell over and were over 80", you got a penalty. It stunk, but that was the rules. If it isn't intentional however, I don't believe they will assess the TECHNICAL FOUL for it this year (yes, I know it says "continuous", but I'm hard pressed to think that referees would assess it as such, especially if you e-stop).
I might have missed it, but I also don't see the rule that says you can't force an opponent into a penalty like they have had in previous years...
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Our team picked up on the lack of forced penalty rule as well.
I think this requires some Q&A/update based fixing with the forced penalty rule. Only thing I can think of that would cover it is the head refs ability to assign red and yellow cards at their discretion for egregious behavior.
Technically this year it is an equally valid strategy to stack discs on your opponents to force them into penalties. There are many teams that say 'if it is a legal way to score it's a way to score'. Other teams would say this is against their honor code (I know we would never do it). If this kind of thing isn't fixed by the regionals there is going to be lots of unnecessary controversy.
On the original subject of the cylinder, someone should make sure the GDC knows the full ramifications of the rule and doesn't want to make any changes to the 'if a robot is tipped' rule considering how tipping a robot now could potentially create a technical foul.