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Re: Human players are costing points

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Originally Posted by geekofband007 View Post
One game we had we should have won but the human player kept reaching is hand into the bin instead of using the claw. This cost of 40 points. Many human players kept doing this and I couldn't out for the life of me why.
There's no rule against picking moon rocks out of the bin with your hands. I think you misunderstood what was going on. I hope you did -- if penalties were being assigned for a legal action, something is very wrong.

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Another major problem for human players was that they were touching the glass when they put the empty cells through the holes. DON'T DO THIS!!! I watched teams get penalized in the finals for this.
Good luck to everyone and make sure your human players don't touch the glass and use the pinchers to get the balls out of the bin!!!! this will save you a lot of heartaches
What matches did you see these penalties in? I'd like to find out what the referees were actually calling. There's no rule against "touching the glass" either. Reaching through the outpost shield is illegal, and reaching into the opening at the airlock will get you penalized, but just touching the lexan is fine.