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Unread 12-03-2007, 16:27
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Re: Rule Discussion: Possession

Did any teams actually receive a penalty for this? We had this happen to us twice (once in practice, once on Friday, both times able to get it back off thanks to our arm design), and we never got penalized. We did score one tube with the other one stuck on us, so that one didn't count towards our score, but we never actually received penalty points.

I really think human players just need to be careful on this one; if you're careless enough to throw the tube onto your robot's flag, you're going to pay for it.

On a side note pertaining to flags, did any other Regionals implement the "caution flag" system (not to be confused with yellow cards)? At Arizona teams that had a long arm were given a flag with a piece of caution tape tied to it. This served as a warning to the referees to avoid the edges of the field when this robot was near so they wouldn't get their heads taken off, as well as to watch for violations of the 72" box rule.
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