Can you catch your own ball?

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by mistersands

So the rules say :



I'm a little confused. Does "that ROBOT" refer to the alliance partner who scored the ball over the truss, or the robot who has the alliance partner?

In other words, can you launch your ball over the truss and catch it on the other side? Or does it have to be separate robots?

the rule states a robot's alliance partner throws and that robot catches.
That is probably being used as an adjective to delineate a reference to "a robot" It is grammatically awkward.

Better wording would be

A CATCH occurs when a BALL SCORED over the TRUSS by a ROBOT is POSSESSED by either of the two non-truss scoring ROBOTS from the same ALLIANCE as the truss scoring robot before contacting the carpet or HUMAN PLAYER