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Originally Posted by IbleedPink233
I expect that some Refs are going to start handing out Fouls like candy and the defensive game will have to completely change since the Ball becomes a Foul button.
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There are no situations in which this rule change will cause more penalties. The defending robot still needs to POSSESS the ball to get a penalty call, which is exactly what the old rules said. All that this rule does is minimize the impact of unintentional and inconsequential POSSESSIONs by opponent robots by making this infraction worth 20 points instead of 50.
There will be no appreciable change in game flow since the base rule is still the same (don't POSSESS the opponent's ball). If the refs start handing out FOULs like candy, I for one will be happy, because under the old rules, every single one of those would have been a TECHNICAL FOUL.