I don't believe there were any penalties for human-player-zone-goal-plane-breaking-robots at either UTC New England or Philly regionals. Our robot's super ball catching and collecting skills have won us a regional. Whenever a goal blocked the human player opening, we either went to the other opening or pushed the goal out of the way with our conveniently-placed-heightwise basket mechanism; and whenever there was a robot in the way we pushed it out of the way with our super-torquey-team-45-inspired drive train. So all in all, for our team, a goal in our way was not in our way for long, but against less powerful robots in our situation, the situation could have proven disastrous.
See you all in Atlanta!
