IRI Finals Question

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Originally Posted by JB987

Watching the archive videos peaked my interest. Tons of great matches and kudos to all the competitors and champions. Can somebody explain to me how the human player hard bounce off of 2056 that returned to the in bounder was construed as an actual possession/assist...throughout the event? No intent to be argumentative, just trying to understand why such interaction wasn't called as an assist throughout the regular season events I attended or watched. Sure would have made things easier

I was thinking the same thing about possession. Upon further investigation I found out that unless there was a rule change I did not know about, it should not have counted for possession. Here is the FIRST definition of possession in the rule book:

“carrying” (moving while supporting BALLS in or on the ROBOT or holding the BALL in or on the ROBOT),
“herding” (repeated pushing or bumping),
“launching” (impelling BALLS to a desired location or direction via a MECHANISM in motion relative to the ROBOT), or
“trapping” (overt isolation or holding one or more BALLS against a FIELD element or ROBOT in an attempt to shield them).

All of these definitions require that the robot actually moves either a manipulator or the whole robot in order to direct the ball. By definition, the hard bounce is NOT possession. No idea why they counted it. However, there was a rule change for IRI saying that zones don't matter for assists, not sure if that affected anything judgment-wise.