[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Let's say your robot is shooting from a protected position. A defender comes to block you by parking very close in front of you. You push the defender back while still in a protected position.

If you make contact, a penalty is going to be called one way or another. Either your opponent will be penalized per G30, or you will be penalized per G18-1.

Given how many shooters will try and shoot from a protected position, I can see this situation happening quite often...

To me the call is similar to the Block/Charge in basketball. A offensive player goes up for a shot, and contact is made with a defender. As soon as contact is made, it's going to be a blocking foul on the defender, or a charge call on the shooter.

Same rules as last year, and 1477 employed this to great effect to keep people from blocking them while shooting from the key. They could drop a pickup mechanism to maintain contact with the key and scoot forward to tag someone for a foul. I expect the only way you're going to see G18-1 called is if a team bulldozes someone into a loading zone or pyramid, then pins them there and keeps tagging them to rack up fouls. That's obviously a strategy solely aimed at using fouls to score points. A team that bumps a defender as in your example is trying to get a clear shot to score points.