Can you go in the opposing alliance's alley?

[theprgramerdude]

Intentionally hitting opponents sitting in an alley isn't an exploitation of G44, and thus wouldn't count as a G45 infraction. Hitting the opposing robot is an inevitability if they just sit in the infraction zone, and isn't a strategy for gaining free points, using the terminology in the rule.

G45, IMO, is primarily a repeat of last years rule modification, whereas a viable strategy for winning due to the super easy red card penalties is just push opposing robots into your tower/robots in contact with the tower during the end game. Thus, this rule is probably meant to be applied to situations where robots intentionally push the other team into infractions, rather than them knowingly making infractions easily possible.

[PayneTrain]

I assume an exploitation like G45 is a preemptive measure so we don't get the emergency team update like last year, where an alliance could bait a team into the zone, contact them, and get the alliance red cards.

If an alliance is controlling 9 balls in their robots and holds the remainder in their alley, they could bait teams into going into the alley and hitting them for a technical foul and DQ. If either bot intentionally hits the other in the alley or key, it's a DQ, and incidental is a technical. It's not GP to give teams that opportunity.