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Originally Posted by Josh Goodman
... Was there intentional aggression behind it? Or is this just an unfortunate incident?
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IMHO, neither.
G24 prohibits "strategies aimed at (the) destruction or inhibition", so referees must judge whether the action is strategic, NOT whether the play was intentionally aggressive. I think the Head Referee in this case
might have issued a red card because there is clearly "damaging contact with an opponent ROBOT on or inside the vertical extension of its FRAME PERIMETER" (red robot contacts bottom of blue robot after blue begins to fall backward); however, I think a red card would be incorrect, because the red robot's action was clearly
not part of a strategy aimed at destruction or inhibition.
The blue robot is tippy by design; i.e., playing defense with the arm raised shifts that robot's CG up and to the rear -- and their driver should know it. The Head Ref should have been able to recognize that, too.
Not only do I think the contact was clean (no foul on red), I also think red should have been awarded a G28 free scale because of contact by blue during the endgame (~2:16). Per Q869, "..., DISABLED or E-Stopped (or otherwise immobile) ROBOTS are not exempt from receiving violations."
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