I'd be interested to see a poll / the response from drivers only. While lots of people here are spectating as to how easy it should be to follow G22, I'd be interested to see how many of those people have been down on the field at driver level while they were being incurred.
G22 is not easy to follow, by any means. And when I say not easy, I don't mean that it's something that drivers could get better at with more practice, it's something that if a team wants to play the game in an efficient manner, is almost a probability. It'd be interesting to break down the statistics as far as how many G22 penalties each team has received based on robot type (my guess would be that teams that don't handle the ball at all would have the fewest infractions.)
The game is difficult enough in trying to catch a round object larger than the length and width of your bot. Worrying about crossing over lines on the track completely changes the gameplay. It's almost as if G22 is now defining how the game is played (from a strategical sense,) instead of it being a rule that prevents reverse traffic.
Literally, most infractions are tips of robots crossing over lines. Perhaps the rule could be modified so that the penalty is given if the ENTIRE bot crosses the line backwards. This would make a lot more sense from the driver perspective.
And as an aside,
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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Perhaps the zones should be marked out in colored gaffer tape, not white.
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At BAE, the tape on one side of the box WAS colored gaffers tape. Perhaps this isn't standard, but it really did help there.
Jacob