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Re: Team UPDATE - 2014-01-10
First off I'm not advocating this strategy, I just think FIRST needs to fix a hole they just opened up.
Possessed balls don't count as part of the robot otherwise a lot of robots will break the height restriction and the extension restriction.
That means that an alliance could get a ball "stuck" on the end of their goalie's 6" blocking device and now have a 25" wide blocking device in front of their opponents goal.
This is obviously not in the spirit of the rules but from my interruption of the rules currently legal. Strategic use of the new dead ball rule should be a Red card or technical foul.
Overall FIRST put a very nice solution to a potential big problem in the flow of the game.
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