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Re: Passing Ringers to Robot over the Wall

I have a follow up safety concern. The alliance station wall is six feet six inches high. I can easily see a driver that tall standing above the controls leaning towards the wall getting smacked in the head by a manipulator breaking the plane. With the tetra's, the robot was disabled when a human player had close contact with the robot. After thinking about the safey concerns, I believe that G08 as written should be the only ways a robot can obtain a game piece for the safety of the players and coaches behind the alliance station wall. I would not want the ten point penalty the only thing a team would loose if a player was injured. That close of possible interaction between players and a live robot is not wise. In addition, there were penalties against the opposng alliance bumping a robot when is was in the loading zone picking up a tetra from a human player. I am not aware of any rule/penalty this year that would apply in this situation.