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Originally Posted by MrJohnston
It is also brutal to call a forfeit because a robot broke down at an inconvenient moment....
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Think of it as one of the many dangers of being in the team's secret passage.
The one exception being: Team lost control of the robot, it ran across the field, hit the wall, and the team e-stopped it. Then, I could see some leniency, but what? It is still keeping the other alliance from scoring. At least a forfeit could stop the alliance from racking up foul points (the disabled robot no longer can receive foul points).
Another possibility: The first contact with the disabled robot is the normal penalty (foul). Once that happens, the other alliance is award 5 goal points for every 5 seconds (or portion thereof) remaining in the game.