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Re: Two Questions Regarding Hurdling

Since most launchers don't shoot straight up, the ball remains in contact with the robot as it projects upwards and forwards. This means that a launcher could pull up right behind a blocking robot, fire the ball into the robot, and draw a penalty on the blocking robot as the blocker would be contacting the ball while the launcher was attempting a hurdle. Minus ten for the blocker if the ref catches it, and the ball is still "live" for a hurdling attempt without needing to do another lap.

The refs in Seattle were on top of this... in fact they were on top of pretty much everything... and in fact our final game of qualifying in Seattle was decided in the last few seconds when an opponent was penalized for blocking our shot.

Now it might work better if you positioned the blocking robot on the counter-clockwise side of the overpass. Since the ball needs to completely pass over the finish line to complete a hurdle, the ball would not have scored, and there is no way that the blocking robot would be contacting either the ball or the launching robot in the home stretch.

However I know from our launching experience that our drivers were able to hurdle (and even place the ball on the overpass) when there were two balls already on the overpass... so while the blockers do slow launchers down, they aren't likely to stop them.

Jason