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Re: Late as it is for strategy, I was thinking.

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Originally Posted by rforystek
I think that the refs need to be aware of this. In about every match at the MWR you could always see a team in some way breaking the plane of the field. No penalties were ever given for this.

Actually Ken, there is no rule that states you cannot break the top of the vertical player station wall. The rule you may be thinking of addresses only the ball corral. (G28)
Therefore, if/when it happened at MWR, it should not have been penalized.

However, there is always the safety rule, and if something is deemed a safety hazard they will do something about it. But, in general, it's not illegal.
If you've got an arm or something dangling down over the wall trying to block the HP, that could be considered a safety hazard, but if you're a robot with a 2x ball in your arm, that happens to cross the top of the wall, it's ok.
If you've seen some of the HPs out there, it'd probably be a waste of time to try blocking them, and totally blocking their view with a blanket or something is illegal, due to being un-GP.
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