[EricH]

Originally Posted by DareDad

I suspect that it will be made clear that an attacking robot touching a defending robot in its secret passage will always receive a foul no matter which robot initiates contact.

That leaves attackers free to go in and steal boulders but woe be unto him who gets caught by the castle defenders.

So, what you're saying is that if Blue is in Red's passage, and Red initiates contact, Blue gets a foul, regardless. Correct? (Sorry, wasn't quite clear on who would be attacking and defending.)

All I'm going to say on that is that is going to need to be made very clear that it's an exception to G11. Teams that may be trying that strategy aren't going to be happy, but it's a risk they took.

My personal preference would be that Red gets one bump where nobody gets a penalty, after which if Blue doesn't back out, it's a blockading foul on Blue, and if Blue initiates contact it's an automatic penalty.