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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
... [someone] ... was pointing the direction that 469's redirector was going to go. This was an unfortunate situation but it happened and now we all know it is illegal. Years ago this sort of signaling used to be legal but FIRST banned it in more recent years. So, in the future don't do it.
I hope this concludes any conversation about this topic.
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My personal opinion is that pointing intended to assist a competing team is not sportsmanlike, and should be discouraged. I applaud the action Paul took to stop it.
However, my effort to find a rule against it in the 2010 Manual (
Game Rules or
Tournament Rules) has been unsuccessful so far. A quick CD search turned up
this post by Dave last year, which suggests that an explicit rule of this sort did not exist in 2009, but had been used in the past.
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