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Originally Posted by blakwyte

yep i'm talking about outside the home zone, which is a one-time 10 pointer ... inside the home zone it's obviously a cumulative penalty. but if you look at some of the ramps that are out there, particularly the really large ones that take up most of the lateral room in the home zone and are "front end loaders", it would be ultra-easy to block from outside.

also, i'm unaware of whether you can be penalized the full 30 for being pushed into your opponents home zone. i don't believe you can but i'd like something definite.

The only thing is they may give you a Yellow Card for deliberately breaking the rules

edit: That is exactly why we made our ramps massive wings since it is much more difficult to block both sides. This way they are required to enter the homezone to block penalizing their team. Another point is that a team with one ramp and a large platform can be blocked for 30 penalty pts, but block 60 bonus points. With 2 ramps such as our design TWO robots must each block one side netting a minimum of 20 pts and a maximum of 60 in penalties against the other team.