[EricH]

Originally Posted by Neima

I don't know how they are doing that in that video but at 10k lake I saw a team able to do that too. Their human player would barely put the tote in the chute then let go of it and open the chute door before the tote would hit the door. This allowed the tote to gain enough speed to not tip on its side. I asked the head ref about it and he said it was a grey area.

No grey area about it--if he's not touching the tote and the chute door at the same time, there is no foul that can reasonably be called. Propping doesn't apply, because only the hand is being used to open the door--and if that was called for propping, the QA for every team at the event would be zero due to all the red cards.

Originally Posted by Neima

is that legal though? i thought you were not suppose to use the chute door to slow down totes

Ask your head ref. They will tell you how it will be called at your event. Or look at Q260.