54 in cylinder

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

This is highly worrisome. What if you are a 60" tall robot and you are tipped over (maybe you fall off the tower). Do you get a technical foul? By this ruling, yes, absolutely you do. I feel like that would be adding extreme insult to injury, though and I doubt intended.

In 2008, this was exactly the case, with similar rules for an 80" cylinder. If you fell over and were over 80", you got a penalty. It stunk, but that was the rules. If it isn't intentional however, I don't believe they will assess the TECHNICAL FOUL for it this year (yes, I know it says "continuous", but I'm hard pressed to think that referees would assess it as such, especially if you e-stop).

I might have missed it, but I also don't see the rule that says you can't force an opponent into a penalty like they have had in previous years...