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Originally Posted by Josh Fritsch
It will be interesting from the standpoint of both offense - which I believe you are referring - as well as defense being played. If an opponent BLUE ball inadvertently gets trapped between the field side rail and a RED robot - even for a second, technically this is possession by the RED robot and a 50 point technical foul.
We'll see I guess.
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Very true. I think it's very interesting that the GDC used a universal definition for both offensive and defensive Possession. If I were writing the rule, I would have been inclined to use the current definition for Possession to define what you cannot do with your opponents' ball, and have a more restrictive definition on what you need to do with your own ball to constitute offensive Possesion. This would keep the same restrictions on defensive interference on the ball, but would also force teams to exhibit a more intuitive form of possession on offense. I still find the idea that a team can press/Trap a ball against the side of the field to score points, to be very counter intuitive.