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Re: Defensive Robots/Strategies?

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Originally Posted by SpaceBiz View Post
One thing that might happen is robots is fuel getting stuck in gear mechanisms, specifically passive ones, incapacitating them for that match. In theory, intentionally doing so is almost definitely illegal via G08.

"Don’t tear others down to lift yourself up. Strategies aimed at the destruction or inhibition of ROBOTS via attachment, damage, tipping, entanglements, or deliberately putting a GEAR on an opponent’s ROBOT are not allowed."

Violation: FOUL and YELLOW CARD. If harm or incapacitation occurs as a result of the strategy, RED CARD.

There are some hypothetical scenarios where this could be a problem however. If robot A pushes robot B into a hopper, causing one of the 50 balls to get stuck in, and incapacitate one of the mechanisms on robot B, what happens? How do you judge intent of an otherwise acceptable defensive action? The strategies "aimed at" wording makes it seem like intent would need to be present to draw a foul, but wouldn't it therefore be a result of strategy and always draw a red card? Obviously it is the head refs discretion, but is there any direction you think these rulings would normally go?
Balls getting stuck will absolutely be a problem for most teams, especially the errant ball that pops up when plowing into them near the feeder station. It was among the reasons I forced our feeder team to pivot last night and re-evaluate most decisions and assumptions about the feeder last night. In the end our tests showed that our mechanism could be crazy-simple and still deal with this exact problem.
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