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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.
Violation: FOUL. If strategic, TECHNICAL FOUL. and Potential YELLOW CARD
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Ok so lets dive into what this really means:
Strategies/ game play resulting in damage, destruction or inhibition: if you physically stop your opponents from doing what they would like.
High-speed or repeated aggressive ramming: hitting them when they are not moving
Tipping: what happens when 2 150lb objects collide.
If it is an accident: 20pt foul.
If you meant it: 50pt foul.
I this as a game changer. If refs are strict on it then we could see a complete ban on defense. If refs are lenient on it then I think we will see every single match score be challenged.