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Unread 11-01-2004, 17:12
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Re: Goaltending- the next big controversy

I'm also not sure if they intended this rule to make a robot-held backboard illegal. Technically, if you latch onto a goal with a backboard-like device, that would mean you "impede the downward fall of a thrown ball with any part of a robot or a big ball held by a robot." Yet, their choice of word, goaltending, seems to imply the spirit of the rule was to stop people from covering the goal. Seems to me like the spirit of the rule should allow for a backboard, but the wording makes it illegal.

On the otherhand, a backboard can be a backboard in one orientation and a blocking mechanism in another depending on which goal you have...

Any thoughts on this?
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