I have found a very interesting/disturbing problem.
The rules are very clear about possessing multiple tubes. My question then becomes... every team is required to have a flag above their robot. I understand this isn't GP, but that isn't the question at hand. If a team were to place a ringer on another teams flag, I believe this constitute possession of a ringer for that team, and thus they would incur the 10 pt penalty every time they picked up another ringer.
This is clearly against the intent of the game, but I want it to get out there well before regionals start.
Possible solutions to this problem:
- Remove flags from robots
- Don't count ringers possessed by flags as in the possession of a robot (creates other problems)
- Penalize teams for putting ringers there (needs to be severe enough as a deterant)
- Yellow Card? (utilizes a new rule! Yeah!)
I can't say any of these are perfect solutions, but I think that this needs to be addressed as it could cause major problems during the competition.
Obviously something needs to be done, otherwise we'll end up playing a massive game of pin the tail on the donkey, err drop the ring on the robot.