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Originally Posted by russell
Ok no one can possible argue with this:
<R93> Decorations must not affect the outcome of the match, and must be in the spirit of “Gracious
Professionalism.”
Whether or not your distracting the other teams robot is GP doesnt matter, because you "must not affect the outcome of the match". If you cannot affect the outcome of the match you would be better off just avoiding putting green on your robot, because a) you would be more likely to screw with your own alliances robots than those of the other alliance and b) when you did screw with your alliances robots, and you tried to protest the match on the grounds that your decorations had affected the outcome (by making your team loose), the judges would probly just reply with some equivalent of "that sucks for you"
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R93 concerns non-functional decorations that don't have to meet any electrical/material/cost requirements on the robot. The non-functional decoration rules are intended to prevent teams from using other camera systems to see what the robot sees, etc. I think a green panel on the robot would be legal if you account for the materials and such and your green panel conforms to all other robot rules. If all painting of the robot and decorations had to abide the "can't affect the outcome of the match", then arguably you couldn't customize your paint job to make it easy to see your robot across the field and quickly tell its orientation by what colors you can see on it.
Also, I'm not particularly talking about painting the whole robot green because the definitely would confuse my alliance partners. I was more thinking of just a green panel on the front that only my opponents could see.