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Re: Purposely lodging a ball in an enemy alliance's robot

Without going into details of the match, and assuming we're talking about the same one, there wasn't a clear demonstration of intent for one robot to land the shot in another robot (extended period of time lining up, waiting until the opponent was in position, etc). I believe the robot that caught it got a technical foul, though with the most recent rule update it would have been a regular foul.

I suspect with how hard it is to line up a robot with another, deliberately aim, and time a shot appropriately, we won't see this kind of thing happen. The burden of proof for "intent" here is quite high as many accidents can look intentional (see: tipping).
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