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Originally Posted by coldfusion1279
IMO, you should be allowed to push them across the center line, but then give them space to get back. It was called this way at our recent competition.
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Or a more "in the spirit of the rules" type ruling might be to not penalize the tall bot, as long as they can be seen to be making an effort (not necessarily progress) towards getting back into the zone.
This weekend I saw 701 push multiple bots out of the auto zone so 2169 could shoot, and then 701 would limit the blockers motion to the other side of the field. The entire time, the blocker bot was receiving penalties.
It seems that if you want to be a blocker this year, you better have a clear superiority in traction. Or, alliances ought to just ditch this whole FCS thing because they risk calls (usually wrong if you ask me) being made against them too.
note: I also saw some misinterpretations of the pinning rule involving trying to block FCS, but this seems to be an isolated incident.
I'd really like to a few of the teams that have been successful using the question box to explain how they did it. I think that could help a lot of teams.