How to pick up a frisbee

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by Garten Haeska

I forget which rule, but your robot can't purposefully block an area of field and then they aren't allowed to touch your robot when they are at the feeder station.

Yes, I also recall that rule. It states that a robot cannot intentionally block and prevent the "flow" of the match. But this rule has been in the manual for quite some time, as I remember. Like in Logomotion, bots patrolled the middle of the field and blocked bots from crossing. I don't remember penalties every being called against this. The only defensive penalties I've seen is contact in a protected zone (which would be the feeder station and when a bot is touching the pyramid in this case). So this leads me to believe, either the refs aren't calling these penalties, or this isn't considered blocking the "flow" of the match. And if that isn't blocking the flow, I don't know what would be considered so.