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Originally Posted by RoboTigers1796
My question right now is.
Scenario:
RED robot is scoring boulders in BLUE Courtyard.
There is a BLUE robot playing defense against that RED robot.
RED robot has no boulders available except for one sitting in BLUE Secret Passage.
RED robot travels into BLUE Secret Passage in attempt to pick up the boulder.
BLUE robot sees them traveling in to the Secret Passage to retrieve the boulder, follows them in, and continues playing defense (bumping, pushing, mainly trying to get between RED robot and the boulder, etc). Would this be a G11?
I would argue it is not a G11 and is in fact a G21 because they are not trying to intentionally cause a TECH FOUL, they are trying to play defense and keep an offensive robot from retrieving a game piece. However to an untrained eye, or maybe a passing glance by a ref, it would appear to be a G11 because of the repeated contact by BLUE onto RED in the Secret Passage and they could see it as trying to rack up TECH FOULS.
Or maybe I'm reading the update completely wrong and it would always be a G11 on the BLUE robot?
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That's a good followup Q&A since it's not clear. I'd lean towards that being a G11. I think the GDC thinks of the game objectives more as the scoring, etc. objectives outlined in the rules. Defense isn't seen as playing the game. At least not in the same sense as doing one of the scoring tasks in the rules. Thus the rule against disrupting the flow of "the game" by playing particularly effective defense.
Also, in your scenario it's a lot easier to argue that the BLUE robot really is trying to draw a foul on RED. BLUE is actively threatening RED with a penalty for the sole purpose of keeping RED from collecting that ball.
All that said, RED can turn that right around by tagging BLUE in the SP and then continuing on to bulldoze the ball in any particular direction. Then it's obviously a G21 by blue box standards.
So yeah, chasing boulders in an enemy secret passage is an extremely dangerous activity with enemy robots nearby.