[Jon Stratis]

It was added to reduce robot penalties. Human players are a whole other story, and any time we have human players introducing game objects right up to the field we have penalties for it. It hasn't been much in the past few years due to the restriction on entry - discs had slots, and if the cover was on the ray leading to the slot it was practically impossible to get a penalty; basketballs had the long slot, and teams most often were throwing the ball hard through it, which meant their hands didn't come that close to the opening; Tubes were mostly thrown over the top, and not passed through the slot. This year is vastly different, as there's only the low railing separating the human players from the robots.