How to pick up a frisbee

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by donnie99

2. The rules state that you may block people at any point as long as they are not touching their pyramid, their safe zone next to the feeder station, and you do not pin them for more than 5 seconds. Although it would be against the spirit of FIRST and stopping the flow of the game, it is legal at this point in the season before any rule updates to block the feeder station. This is something that if seen at a competition, would most likely be changed for the rest of the season.

History would suggest the opposite. While FIRST has implemented many rules in order to encourage offense and protect offensive robots in the past few years, they haven't fully eliminated defense. Pushing and attempting to interfere with robot's transit across the field has been a long standing part of FRC games, and was a critical element in many games in which your alliance's human loaders are located on the far side of the field from where you score (2006 and 2011 being two recent examples).