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Originally Posted by animenerdjohn
The way I understand it,
If full-court-bot(FCB) is in the protected zone shooting , and defense bot (DB) comes to block its shot:
If FCB moves to go shoot at the pyramid and hits DB then the foul is DBs because FCB is just trying to play the game.
If FCB moves solely to trigger the penalty then goes back to shooting then the foul is on FCB because they aren't trying to play a game they're taking advantage of a rule (which is against the rules)
It's the "spirit and purpose of the rule" thing
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Makes perfect sense to me, but how would an official know that FCB is just trying to get to the pyramid to make a shot? I guess by seeing that the bot goes to the pyramid, but that could still be considered intentional contact.