[EricH]

Originally Posted by AndyBare

This means that your own alliance gets priority in your alliance's secret passage. if a robot is touching your secret passage's carpet, and you touch them, they are fouled, because this contact breaks rule G21.

The best way to think about your space in an opposing alliance's secret passage is as a privilege, not a right - you'll be fouled for overstepping your bounds.

Except that if you touch them and there's no other reason to touch them (like going to load up), G11 applies and you get the foul. They have every right to be there, but they cannot make contact with another robot or exit to the Neutral Zone. You have every right to be there, as well, but you can go into the Neutral Zone.

Again, I think that "contact"--when it is being used as a verb, as it is here--generally refers to "initiating contact". If I call you on the phone, are you contacting me? No. I'm contacting you, or getting in contact with you.

I would expect a change to "touching" or "regardless of who initiates contact" depending on what the GDC actually intended here. Either that or there are going to be some questions in Q&A, or some explanations from Head Refs who'd rather not have those discussions because they're busy trying to explain the foul for interfering with crossing a Defense...