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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley
Realistically, no part of the robot is perfectly rigid. Throwing a ball at a goalie pole, or side shield, or any other number of non-spring loaded mechanisms would also deflect and bounce the ball back to a desired location (if done properly).
IMO, it was a slippery slope to allow those short bounce-off type possessions because from the get go because you can get so deep into the 'technically its deflecting' part of the rule description.
That being said, it was a tough nuance of the game that was difficult to parse out, and it seemed those type of possessions were being called consistently. Thats all you can really ask for in weird situations.
-Brando
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Technically speaking, every material you chuck the ball at will deform and push the ball back, so I agree, every time I hit a ball with my robot, I'm impelling it with motion relative to the robot.
But remember, this is FIRST, where rules aren't interpreted the way they're written, but are interpreted according to how people are feeling on a particular day (see extending outside field fouls), and according to FIRSTers, should be "interpreted by Grandmothers", who are the most qualified people in the world to make decisions in an engineering project.
