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Originally Posted by CalTran
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Being a ref is hard enough. As a first year ref, and considering becoming a regular Referee (at least, until I can break onto the Game Announcer / MC field), it's posts like that, that make me a little terrified of the job.
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To be fair, you bolded the part that wasn't important. You should have focused here instead:
Strategies aimed at the destruction or inhibition of ROBOTS
If your strategy is aimed to tip the robot, it's a yellow card. This relies on intent. If typical game contact causes a tip, that isn't a strategy aimed at inhibiting the robot and G24 doesn't apply. THIS is why they're suggesting reading the rules is important. Tipping, by itself, isn't illegal. In some cases, it shouldn't be carded at all. If the team is using a strategy to tip the robot, then by all means throw the flag and nobody will complain. If a robot gets tipped hitting another robot after flying over a defense, you cannot reasonably expect the hit team to have the means to teleport out of the way or get a red card. That's not about strategy. It's just a collision.