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Originally Posted by willross
Does anyone know definatively the answers for the following questions? "Are the mobile goals associated with a particular alliance?" "Could one alliance take both mobile goals in a match and have control of them at the end?" There is much to ponder depending on the answers to these two questions.
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This is really two questions: Can a team physically control/posess both mobile goals? and Does physical posession of a goal affect the scoring?
Yes, you can grab, move and "posess" one or both mobile goals. Drag them both to your end of the field. Shove the red goal to the blue end of the field. Put "your" goal to your opponents end, and vice versa. Control them both from the very beginning of the game to the end, or ignore them completely for the entire match. Do what ever you want (as long as you don't damage them or go underneath), and there is no problem.
Scoring of the balls contained in the goals is entirely independent of the "posession" of the goals. All balls contained in the red goal (the one with the red bottom) will be scored for the red alliance, no matter which end of the field it is on or who controls the goal at the end of the game.
So, yes, you should be thinking about strategies that grab both goals, drag them to your end of the field, and allow you to easily control the scoring of points into either mobile goal. In this way you can have significant control over the overall match score (and drive up those qualifier points).
-dave