From Looking Forward
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Will we see more tugs of war and entangled mechanisms? Will we see red cards? It's hard to say for certain, as teams are engaged in a convert arms race to be the fastest burglars out there and many teams will be heading in with new or improved systems than what they have shown before. Each mechanism will interact with the cans, the robot as a whole, and other burglars in a unique fashion. As a result, there likely won't be some uniform answer to the questions above.
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I have been looking through a whole slew of CD posts and that one post by Looking_Forward. Can burglar operations and rules violations are a little murky to me at this point and I am wondering whether people think an official post of sorts will be forthcoming before the Championships. Specifically, I have two scenarios which I have seen in various competitions and I am looking to see what rules infractions and penalties, if any, people think will be called at the Championships.
Scenario one:
Red Alliance burglar faces off against Blue Alliance burglar. Red alliance arms only go to the middle of the bin, Blue Alliance arms pass the bin and cross onto the red side. Red gets to the bin first, then Blue’s arms impact Red’s arms on the red side of the field, G-18 violation, right? Foul? At this point in the season, could it be argued that extending beyond the step is strategic and therefore a Red Card? Exactly how does one define ‘egregious’? Certainly causing Red to lose the bin or breaking their arms is ‘really bad’, at least to Red, especially on Einstein.
Scenario two:
Red Alliance burglar faces off against Blue Alliance burglar. Red alliance arms only go to the middle of the bin, Blue Alliance arms go to the middle of the bin. They are about equal speed, and a tug-of-war ensues. Red wins and pulls the bin onto the red side, and Blue’s arms are still attached. G-18 violation? Probably not, it was not intentional. How long is that ok for? Can blue continue to fight against red in this tug-of-war indefinitely? Once you’ve ‘lost’, do you have to let go right away?
Being that the general consensus is that finals will likely be won using fast can burglars, then wouldn't clearly knowing what would be enforced in these pretty common scenarios be good to know ahead of time, consistently, across all eight divisions?