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Re: Is pinning opposing robots trailers allowed?

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Originally Posted by jblay View Post
i cant find anything in the rules that defines grasping but i think i read something earlier that said if the referee rules that if you where to back up or spin and the opponents trailer where to have the same orientation as before that was considered grasping. could someone clarify this for me.
You're probably thinking of the definition of POSSESSION in 7.2. But that's a pretty good approximation of robot grasping as well. There have been rules against grasping, grappling, etc before (e.g. Rack n Roll) but I don't recall any specific definition.
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