[Swampdude]

Basically you're screwed if you have an apendage outside the bumper zone and someone either hits it or you hit someone with it, you get a 5 pt penalty every time theres contact. Also if you have an apendage that goes more than 3" into the ball chute your alliance gets dq'd, and that even if someone else pushes you causing the thing to go in. So if you have a thingy outside the bumper zone you better take it off or risk losing every match because of it. These are 2 brutal rules that will ruin many teams design strategies, that are being executed on late Thursday/Friday morning basically, giving these affected teams no time to make the needed changes. Too much too late IMO. Also you can't ride up a bumper on top of the bumper zone etc. But if a bot is on its side you may push them wherever you like. They also clarified pinning to exist everywhere on the field except when a bots wheels are all entirely off the carpet (on the ramp) then they are fair game.
The q&a got a little coarse where some students weren't too happy with these rules and Dr. ???Aiden took the abuse well. These rules acoording to him always existed, but to my knowledge were never enforced.