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Re: Using Discs to Block Full Court Shooters

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Originally Posted by zmeves View Post
Any robot attempting to block another's pyramid shot can only be 60" tall, you can only be over 60" inside your Autozone (which is where opposing FCS's shoot from)
But if you were to have your blocker rigged such that everything except some number of discs (less than or equal to 4, of course) were able to drop below 60", could the refs call you for being above the height limit?

Not if it was retracted. Not under current rules. But the effective blocking height is going to be closer to 70" than 60".
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