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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann
Because its still minus points. Also After a hurdle and/or your robot crossing your finish line, in order for you to score again the ball and/or your robot have to cross your opponents finish line to be able to score again.
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If a scoreable ball gets transported into your home quadrant and you're past the overpass, it may be worth it to go fetch the ball and score it, rather than do a lap. During your lap to catch up to the ball, it may get pushed forward out of your zone and thus you'd have to do ANOTHER lap to score it. Simply going backwards and scoring it for 6 points (if the penalty was 2 points) or 3 points (if the penalty was 5 points) would be worth it. After that, you're right by the ball and can pick it up and score normally.
Plus as Tyler said: if there was the possibility where doing a G22 would actually net points, refs would have to keep track of FAR more G22s. And you'd have people like me complaining that teams are breaking the rules on purpose. It is possible that you'd have refs giving out yellow cards for teams that repeatedly and intentionally broke G22 on purpose to score points (see Galileo QF 1-2 and the result of purposely breaking the ball-possession rules).
As an addendum: Penalties SHOULD decide matches. That's what they are there for. If one team scores more points but does it by breaking the rules, then they didn't win a match of FIRST Overdrive, they won a match of something similar to FIRST Overdrive, but not actually FIRST Overdrive.