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Originally Posted by rich2202
You can't block balls from being introduced. That would be a G11 violation because of G34.
You can sit midway down the Secret Passage, and block balls from going all the way down. However, if the other team comes along, you better get out of the way.
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No, because they can still introduce balls through the Brattice. If those balls bounce off your robot, it's still legal as per a combo of the G38 blue box and G39 blue box. You can herd or trap balls while in the opponent's secret passage, and G38 says that if it just deflects off your robot it's not even considered possession.
In Quals this is only decent, as you may not have a shooter on your alliance, so the balls just deflect away from the opponent. But in Elims a shooter with intake could stand next to the chokehold robot and intake + shoot all of the balls deflected. They are also braced by at least 1 wall, so moving them would be extremely difficult.
This is a definite question for Q&A, as it would completely break play like 469 in 2010. The precedent for this is that 469 never technically controlled the ball in 2010. I figure if something as gregarious as that was let go, this would be allowed as well. In fact the robot would end up quite similar, thinking about it.
Making a robot like this would take a piece of polycarb and 30 minutes at competition, so I'm not too worried about doing it right now.