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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
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This was nuts. But note that this is a different process than most of the incidents in which discs are supporting robots. (Whether the difference matters is another issue.)
Most times, robots drive on top of a disc that is on the floor and remain supported by it in the climb (or "climb"). The NYC photo was thought to be a robot that climbed without contacting a disc, and then an opposing human player threw one that wedged underneath it. In the latter case, your other options are to discount the climb, punishing the blue alliance for the actions of the red, or technical foul the red alliance for an action that's unlikely to be strategic (but might because one if the climb was invalidated). The former situation doesn't have the 'one alliance versus the other' issue; it's more about whether the disc is part of the floor/Level 0.