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Re: Hypothetical defensive situation

G08 is a rule about strategy, which to some extent requires referees to read the drive teams' minds. They've actually gotten fairly good at doing so in some respects. For example, if your strategy seems to be just trying to push a robot to prevent it from lining up its shots correctly, that should generally be fine (assuming no other rules are violated, of course). If upon pushing a robot it seems to start trying to tip, referees are likely to care about your next move: If you push your joysticks fully forward and start cackling maniacally, then you're likely to get called on a G08 violation. If you clearly back off since your strategy isn't and wasn't to try to tip anybody, then you probably won't be called on one, even if the other robot happens to fall over because it was suboptimally engineered.

In other words, because the rule requires the referees to gauge your intent and strategy, it's in your best interest to make your strategy and intent as clear as possible through your actions. (Assuming, of course, your strategy and intent are within the spirit of FIRST and GP and you're not trying to damage or tip anybody.)

And also keep in mind that G09 penalizes damaging contact within a frame perimeter, regardless of intent. But we seem to mostly be talking of "shoving matches" here.
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