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Re: Off Side Penalty?

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Originally Posted by DjAlamose
This is what you can do in this situation if you are on the opposing alliance and you have a defensive robot on your alliance. Because it is now 2v3 with the backbot dead, the defensive robot can go and begin pushing dead backbot into position so it is no longer a backbot, and presto you now have given your opponent a penalty for every 5 seconds that backbot is over the line. and therefore created a 1v3. But if you were to do this I would only push the dead bot so far as to barely put it over the line so the opposing alliance won't see that it is past the line.

mmm for strategy
And that is exactly the sort of cheap, unsportmanlike tactics that we are supposed to rise above. I would expect to see such a play in a pro wrestling match, but not in a FIRST competition. When you do this, don't be surprised when everyone on your team is treated like pariahs for the remainder of the competition.

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