[Wayne TenBrink]

Originally Posted by thefro526

If you look at my post a page back, you'll see the Q&A relevant to these kinds of situations, those Q/A responses are what I base my response below on.

Basically, if a Red Robot is Touching the Red Pyramid and is contacted or contacts a blue robot while doing nothing else, then it is a foul.

If that same red robot is attempting to score either by shooting or climbing and the same contact happens, then technically there should be a technical foul because the contact was 'consequential' - if this contact causes the red robot to miss a shot/miss-climb/etc as the contact has changed the outcome of the match.

As far as G27 is concerned, assuming Consequential contact is ruled the same for both G30 and G27, if you contact your opponents pyramid and it has no effect on the outcome of the match**, then there are no problems.

** Meaning that you did not cause a robot to fail at doing something or to do something that it wouldn't have failed/done otherwise.

This is what happened in Finals Match 2 at Traverse City. 2474 was in contact with the pyramid and in the process of shooting when they were hit 4 times by an opponent. The contact was deemed consequential, and we were awarded 4 technical fouls. The final score of 184-90 included 80 penalty points (too bad we couldn't have run that up without them...).