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Re: Unscheduled Team Update: 3-20-2014
"Strategies aimed at and/or game play resulting in the damage, destruction or inhibition of opponent ROBOTS via actions such as high-speed or repeated, aggressive ramming, attachment, damage, tipping, or entanglement of ROBOTS are not allowed."
Is defense legal? Any effective defense inhibits a robot. Most defenders use "strategies" or "game play" that result in "inhibition of opponent ROBOTS" by "ramming". All defense is "repeated"; very rarely does a defending team only "ram" another robot only once. "Aggressive" is a subjective term, but I'd argue that all defense is aggressive. "Ramming" as opposed to pushing is also very subjective, especially if you collide with another team that's moving quickly. If this type of foul is called often, then I anticipate many upset teams and inconsistent refereeing.
EDIT: I feel this is quite a bit unfair to teams who, unlike the GDC, realized that in a full open field with no protected areas ramming and high speed collisions would happen a lot, and decided to build incredibly strong and robust robots with the ability to ram teams if they need to. I know there are teams who wouldn't have built their robot if the rule was like this.
Last edited by magnets : 20-03-2014 at 16:17.
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