G12 Update clarification

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Originally Posted by Qcom

Ahh, so Strategic is almost like a double-extended violation.

That's not quite what I meant. Basically there are two things that must happen for me to consider it strategic. First, it must be intentional, which I think everyone is pretty clear on. Second, the team or teams involved must not attempt to correct the situation, making it apparent that they are trying to prevent the other team from scoring by keeping the ball away.

Originally Posted by RRLedford

This still does not clarify whether positioning lower goal blocking robot extensions sufficiently across (but outside) their faces, and then leaving them statically positioned while an opponent tries to score the ball past them, would be considered a defensive trapping violation.

If the defensive blocker remains static, the contact with them is 100% initiated by the office bot, so IMO it should not be a trapping foul.

If it is not a foul, then many bots will be able to easily prevent any balls being scored at a lower goal with minimum deployment of of lower goal blocking elements.

-Dick Ledford

As the rules are right now, a single robot doing this on one goal would not be penalized. This is not much of a problem since there are two goals. However, if two robots block both goals, I'm pretty sure it would be a violation of G25 and a technical foul.