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Originally Posted by Orthofort
FiM Southfield event just announced they ate removin the fabric as well. They cited a FIRST ruling and said HP's can roll a ball all the way through once on accident, any more is a tech foul.
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Yeah...That was partially answered in one of our Q&A questions.
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Originally Posted by FIRST Q&A
Q878
While we can't answer conclusively on a hypothetical scenario, generally, there are no rules that penalize inadvertent flap flipping or the act of rolling a BOULDER through the LOW BAR. If the REFEREES determine that an action is done intentionally to circumvent G40-1, the REFEREES will deem that action as egregious and will issue a YELLOW CARD per Section 5.5.4.
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The specific question that we asked was: "If a ROBOT, in the process of CROSSING the LOW BAR, accidentally flips the flap such that it no longer stops boulders from rolling through the LOW BAR when thrown forcefully, then drives through the LOW BAR, will that ROBOT be assessed any penalties, since it now enables teams to throw boulders through the LOW BAR without violating G40-1, as the ROBOT is not specifically holding the LOW BAR flap up? If the HUMAN PLAYER chooses to take advantage of this situation, are they assessed any penalties?"
However, the point that pertains to this thread is the last part. FIRST's ruling on it implies that Human Players are free to abuse the low bar throw as much as they want, since it is not specifically covered under G40-1.
It would be nice to see an official FIRST ruling on this in order to wrap up the GTC scenario. Although we're not competing this week, I can easily see this situation happening again at other regionals as a band-aid fix to the problem.
If this ruling stays, I'm sure that it'll affect other teams as well as mine, as we trained our human player to throw boulders such that we can intake them the moment we cross the low bar. If he now has to precisely control his power such that it doesn't go straight through, I think that it'll significantly reduce cycle time.