[Al Skierkiewicz]

So as to allay confusion, I am Al, AKA Big Al, Al S, Mr. S or Mr. Skierkiewicz depending on the age of the person who is addressing me, what First program you are in and the length of time we have competed with each other. Certain others have used other unauthorized names when addressing me, Dana included. We won't go there, thank you very much.
As to the Spike vs. Breaker controversy, we have been warned in the past about "lawyering the rules". As a broadcaster, single points of failure are to be avoided at all costs. As an example, if the same breaker were used on on two Spikes, one to ingest the ball and one to eject the ball and the breaker tripped preventing you from doing either why would you design your robot to only use one breaker?

To respond to Daniel above. I would have ruled the same. The current that flows in the red wire is the exact same current that flows in the black wire. As you described the wiring you could have had a single #18 wire passing the current of several 20 amp breakers and Spikes. For instance, 4 Spikes fed from four 20 amp circuit breakers each feeding say 10 amps would then cause 40 amps to flow in the #18 wire you daisy chained for the negative return leads. Potentially, 80 amps could flow in the #18 without any circuit breaker trip.