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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I really don't think lots of teams were intending to blindly throw the ball out of bounds and hoping for truss points and the volunteers placing the ball in their favor. I think almost every team intended for the HP to receive the ball but had to play around relentless defense. Adding yet *another* rule punishing teams for the actions of defenders is not how I would want to improve the game.
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Many a times the ball was going everywhere but to HP. If a robot is defended, the team can decide whether to risk a penalty, its no different than shooting into a goal. When shooting into a goal, if opponent robot defends and the ball does not make it into the goal, it will land either into field or outside (in few instances back into robot). When it lands outside alliance is auto-penalized in terms of time. So if you are not confident that you can shoot to HP and he/she can reach out or catch the ball expect some penalty. Got to pay the price for scaring refs and field setup crew.