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Originally Posted by Pavan Dave
If you deduct points for this, then you must give points if you cross a line while coasting. And since MANY MANY people have stated, and claimed that as unfair as it is, you should not get points, those people SHOULD end up voting for 12 points.
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While I agree that your statement about getting points when crossing should equal getting a penalty when crossing and vice-versa sounds reasonable, that is not what the rules say.
The rules say you may only score during hybrid or telop, and they list the specific ways that you can score during each period. A Q&A post also clarified that robots are scored in the position they are in at the end of telop and the end of hybrid, not the point at which they come to rest.
G22 however is not time-limited, and thus can occur at any point during the match. So the question is, is "the pause" part of the match?
There are two possible interpretations... one that since 7.1.1 states the match is 2:15 long, and hybrid is :15 and telop 2:00, that "the pause" is not part of the match. However 7.1.1 also states the robots continue to play until telop is over. If the robots are playing, then they can be penalized, even if they are not allowed to score, simply because that is what the rules say.
In a case of an ambiguity like this, it is reasonable to assume that the field officials would do their best to interpret the rule in the spirit of the game. The spirit of the game clearly includes that the robots should move counter-clockwise about the field, at all times, including hybrid. I would, of course, defer to the judgement of the refs should this occur during a match, but based on what the rules say it would be quite reasonable to assume that it was the intent of the GDC that the robot travelling in the "wrong" direction be penalized.
Jason
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Illustrative Examples from Other Sports: Consider a hockey game. A hockey game consists of three 20 minute periods. At the end of the first period a player shoots the puck towards the opponents goal. The buzzer sounds. The puck coasts across the goal line. No goal as it occurred after the period ended (similar to Overdrive robot scoring). The player, disappointed, gets in a fight, and is penalized by the referee despite the fact that the penalty did not occur during one of the three 20 minute periods. A similar thing occurs in basketball, except the rules specifically state that a ball in motion, but released before the buzzer, scores (similar to Overdrive ball scoring). If the player gets in a fight at half time, they are still penalized. In fact in pretty much every sport players are responsible for following the rules of the game during "pauses", even though they are not generally allowed to score during those periods. While these precedents are not binding on FRC, they do offer guidance in how to interpet the pause between Hybrid and Telop.