Pass to Human Player

[bentjeans]

As I read it, you MAY have human players in any of the 3 boxes on the fields (one on each side, one at endwall), but I didn't see anything saying you MUST have a human in each position. So you might chose to retain two humans at the endwall, one could remove the ball from the pedestal and head right, a defending bot moves right (it's left) to try to block the receiver from getting near the wall, so human passes the ball to the other human within the same zone, and they inbound the ball on the left.

But no, you can't have your bot pass the ball to your human and then back on to the field. That would be ejecting the ball from the field. They have not defined very well the purpose of the "human player barrier", but given the name, and picturing balls flying over the truss for truss and catch points, and the resulting bouncing ball from missing catches or poorly tossed throws, I take it the humans along the side can redirect an errant ball back on to the field, so long as they do not cross the plane of the field wall, contact ball while robot is in contact with it, move yourself completely out of your box etc. to do it.

G39 During the MATCH, TEAMS must remain *in contact* with the area of the FIELD (ALLIANCE STATION or HUMAN PLAYER AREA) *in which they started* the MATCH. Exceptions will be granted for inadvertent, momentary, and inconsequential infractions and in cases concerning safety.

So your human can help get the ball back on to the field, but only to the extent that they can get the ball and return it to the field while keeping at least one foot inside the box. If the ball goes beyond the human's reach, it will be up to the field staff to handle the ejected ball.

3.1.2 MATCH Logistics
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BALLS that are ejected from gameplay during a MATCH will be delivered to the closest HUMAN PLAYER of that BALL’S ALLIANCE by event staff at the next safe opportunity. This includes BALLS that go in GOALS but don’t meet the criteria to be considered SCORED.

So, if you do NOT place a human player in a field sideline box, and the field staff is looking for the closest human player to return the ball to... you get the opportunity to start again from the endwall.