[Duncan Macdonald]

I anticipate the "desired location or direction" being called very strictly with regards to catching to prevent a team from spinning a baseball bat over their robot to earn catch points. If a robot has an active mechanism directing the ball towards the next zone/far wall/friendly robot reliably I expect catch points to be awarded. I am comfortable with my interpretation of the rule but it is slightly at odds with the traditional (grandmother's) definition.

My grandmother's opinion of the rules doesn't bother me this year since an "assist" could be:
-Robot Red 1 pins ball against wall for a couple of seconds
-Every robot ignores the ball for 90 seconds
-Robot Red 2 collects it, drives it the length of the field, and scores it

-Red robot 1 recieves the ball and throws it the length of the field
-Blue robot bumps it back to the original zone ("traditionally considered incomplete or a turnover)
-Red robot 2 collects and scores