[theycallhimtom]

<G24> (which has already been quoted)
"ROBOTS attempting to exit from the HOME ZONE after the audio signal may not be blocked or impeded in this attempt."

All it says is "attempting to exit". It does not say that the robot should exit by the smartest route, or that the robot should avoid other robots in its attempt to exit. Bluabot is attempting to exit so no penalty. Whether the attempt is a bad attempt or not has no relevance. All that matters is that they are attempting to exit the home zone.


Now while there should not be a penalty. I'm not sure whether or not a referee should give bluabot a yellow card. That rule again is:

<T06>
The Head Referee may assign a YELLOW CARD as a warning of egregious ROBOT or team member behavior.

I personally do not think that yellow cards should be given out to teams following the rules, even if they are using a little loop hole in the rules. But I think that it could go either way. It seems obvious that bluabot's intent was to be in the other team's home zone with less than 15 seconds left in order to block the ramp. Therefore I think a yellow card could be used, although personally I would not use it.