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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Eugene,
See now that doesn't sound so bad to me... ...well until the tipping it bit. But the first part.
Suppose there is a defender harassing your prize scoring robot in the near zone. It seems to me that it is a FAS to push them across the field and even a bit onto the bump, holding them for a bit (until the pinning rules kick in) if necessary to defend my partner.
But of course, if we intend to tip them in the end, I suppose we've crossed the line even if we don't actually manage to accomplish it.
Thoughts?
Joe J.
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I'll speak to this one. Of course you can push. To the bump. And hold them.
At one point at West Michigan, a defensive bot (I believe it was 2000) was harassing us in the O zone. Our driver got so frustrated at the excellent job they were doing that when they parked in front of the goal again, he got a running start and lodged them IN the goal. They stayed there the rest of the match. The running joke after that was that if he had pushed a little further, he might have scored some points with their bot.
We also noticed that their team learned from it - not ONCE did they ever put themselves fully up on the ramp again - they always had a portion of their bot not on it. So their play improved (and they were an even bigger pain-in-the-neck defender for the rest of the regional!).
I'll leave the whole 'intent' discussion to someone else. Basic common sense tells me that if the other robot starts to flip - you should back off a little.