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Originally Posted by Anthony Kesich
yes, you can move the goal around. I still say the judges will be lienent on this subject and take it case by case. Capping and being hit is one thing, holding the ball there to block shots is another. If this were true, when you cap your own goals, a good shooter could chuck a ball at your goal, hit the big, yellow ball, call it goaltending, ang cut your score in half. Remember, this year, a lot of the manual, as Dean said, is common sense. Dont' abuse it or we'll get legal documents next year.
-Kesich
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Unfortunately one person's common sense is very different from another's and the game is supposed to be about originality. It is nice to be warm and fuzzy about this and believe that the right decisions will be made but if that is the case why have any rules at all.
Case by case means that at one site anything goes and at another every tiny infraction is enforced. I recall big issues in 2001 about tethers that varied from outright violations of rules to "well they made it so let them use it". It reared again in 2003 with hooks on the gratings.
There is no reason why goaltending shouldn't be allowed- pit human vs machine. Otherwise this becomes a basketball game where the robots are incidental. I've already been instructed by team advisors to find a basketball player to be the human player. My God- this sounds like the antithesis of FIRST is supposed to be! Bring in the athlete to show that a good athlete is the only way you can be successful in a robot competition!
In a basketball game there is defense. If every time a player received a ball everyone cleared the basket to give him a clear shot I doubt basketball would be exciting.
I am waiting for the ruling that robots can't block the feeder chutes and that would pretty much end all defense.
Personally I am quite disappointed in this restriction in the rules. It may be unpopular to say but I think the rules need to be changed and defense of the goals allowed.
WC
