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Re: Off Side Penalty?

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Originally Posted by Nimmy
actually, the first -5 you get AFTER 5 seconds have gone by,
so lets do the math
at 35 seconds=-5
at 30 seconds=-10
at 25 seconds=-15
at 20 seconds=-20
at 15 seconds=-25
at 10 seconds=-30
at 05 seconds=-35
now assuming that no one is gonna wait the entire 40 seconds, and will probably head back at around 38, you might actually get a -35 instead of a -40, in any case -45 is NOT possible by this kind of penalty ALONE,
There is a 5-second grace period "to allow an ALLIANCE to get their BACKBOT “ON SIDES”, however, the BACKBOT must be moving toward the mid-field line at the start of the period." (Rule <G35>) If the robot is already dead, it won't be moving back toward mid-field, so does the grace period apply? If it does, then 40 is the max. If not, it will get the initial 5 point penalty immediately. <G35> also says that the additional penalties per 5-second increment begin accruing after the grace period ends, so again, the question becomes, will the dead bot get a grace period?

We might note that a live robot could get significantly more than 40 points in penalties, if it continuously wavers offside and onside. If this was done about once per second for the entire 40 seconds - WOW, a 200 point penalty!

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I didn't get the whole Nimrod thing,
in any case don't make fun of my name...Nimrod is the guy who ENGINEERED the BABYLON TOWERS! so HA! (how FIRST of me hehe)...
I had no intent of making fun of your name. I knew Nimrod is a name that appears in Genesis. The school mascot is based on Viking lore. I posted the link in case you wanted to order a shirt with your name on it ...

The reason ESPN thought the name "interesting" is that nimrod is a somewhat derogatory term meaning a silly or foolish person. dictionary.com thinks that meaning derives from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, where Bugs describes Elmer Fudd as a "poor little Nimrod". Elmer of course was always hunting Bugs, and Nimrod was a hunter - but Elmer was a very ineffectual hunter, so Bugs clearly didn't mean it as praise.