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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
There's a practical problem with that, though: you can't directly get a red card for egregious behaviour, only a yellow card (according to <T05>), unless the red card results from two yellow cards in two separate matches (due to <T07>). Also, <T09> tells us that red cards can be recieved directly, for disqualifications that don't result from yellow cards—but then the grounds for disqualification need to be something else. That brings us back to the subject of the thread: there doesn't seem to be a sanction with immediate punitive results, unless the behaviour is repeated in more than one match (in which case another yellow card will quickly deal with the offender).
While the referees will obviously hand out a yellow card every time this happens, that does give a team a theoretical opportunity to use this strategy once in the qualifying rounds and once in the elimination rounds, without being disqualified.
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Ummm, as a general rule, you don't want to nitpick the words of someone on the GDC! When they deal with the intent or organization of the rules, especially, they know more about it than any of us!
Also, why would you build a robot that is designed to fall
once during an entire regional? That means that you either have to waste the resources to actuate something strong enough to tip over your bot and make the entire robot durable enough to withstand the impact (ie lots of weight and engineering time) for such a tiny gain OR you have to risk the safety of your robot to tip it over when it is not designed to do that. Either way, you are hurting yourself in the long run, if not the short run, as well.