[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by Racer26

It does seem, though, that the TECHNICAL FOUL called on 1114s alliance in SF1-2 at ONTO would have been reduced to a FOUL by this rule change.

Errant blue TRUSS shot lands in red ROBOT and is immediately ejected seems like a FOUL and not a TECHNICAL FOUL, by my reading of this change.

I agree that refs seem to be really reluctant to dish out POSSESSIONs to HERDing ROBOTs of an ALLIANCE matching the colour of the BALL. They seem to be much more frequently dishing out the G12 foul for HERDing or TRAPping and opponent's BALL. I don't understand why this is.

I came to the same conclusion on your second point. I've been in a situation where a robot on our alliance had a ball land in them on a bounce after a truss shot by the other alliance, and immediately got it out of their robot using their intake mechanism. They were still assessed a technical. That felt off to me, even though the manual tells you in a blue box to try to avoid unintentional possession.

I'm going to ask's the refs at RIDE, as we all should, if they will call it this way. Attempting to immediately remedy the situation of unintentional possession such as that, although pointed out in the manual, really shouldn't be the harshest penalty in the book.