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Originally Posted by RRLedford
The question would be who is forcing the result to happen. That could go either way. If your bot is defending mine, and I try to shoot past you, but ball sticks in your robot, are you saying you won't be penalized, because my bot forced the penalty on yours by merely shooting?
Unless my shot was not headed toward any valid target, that would be an unlikely ruling, and I suspect my bot pushing ball into low goal with your bot's appendage preventing scoring would also yield penalty to your bot.
I guess the critical factor is whether your bot remaining stationary during any contact with ball absolves your bot of receiving any penalty. If so, then it seems like a seriously good defensive strategy.
-Dick Ledford
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Possessing the other Alliance's ball is directly stated as a penalty (G12), so if the ball gets stuck in your robot, you will get a penalty. However, if the other alliance came and purposely put their ball on/in an opposing robot, they would most likely receive a technical foul under G16. Errant shots should not receive G16 penalties, though.
I don't think low goal defense will ever be a penalty, though. In the blue box for G12, deflection is explicitly stated as legal and not possession (“deflecting” - being hit by a propelled BALL that bounces or rolls off the ROBOT).