[Mike o.]

Originally Posted by rspurlin

I see your point. Perhaps we will get further clarification and direction on this.

it seems that other regional events allowed the human players to use the handle of the trident between the gap in the rear goal lexan cover and the ball counter to address jammed balls. I am not a fan of this solution, but it might be one more thing to add to our understanding of this years game, for those of us with events still to come.

We had a similar situation at the DC Regional where two balls got jammed in the goal while a robot was trying to score them. The Head Ref decided not to score them since they did not pass the ball counter. Later a GDC member that was present was asked about this and said that the right decision was made in their part. They also commented that the field was designed with the intent that the end of the trident could in fact be used in that gap between the goal lexan cover and the metal frame to unjam balls in the goal. It was also said that they would make sure that this would be cleared up for future Regional events. Although this was nice to know after the fact, I would say that it would have been nice to know this tid-bit of information before hand.