[FTC]: Warning about Exclusively-Defensive Robots(and how to build one)

[PHFTC]

This year's game is so full of penalties, Teams would do well to know the rules. But there are still lots of gray areas... Certainly the indicated strategy for autonomous has been ruled out in the official forums as indicated above. How do teams point out to the refs that such actions are chronic and have happened in every match the team has played in? Not sign off on the score sheet? One could be unintentional, but not 5x.

Clearly blocking access to the rolling goals is also a penalty. If we lift a tube and they hit us causing it to fall - that should be their penalty right? And we would be awarded a full tube.

I don't have an encyclopedic memory, but isn't there something about the spirit of the game/severe defense that could also come into play?

On a related note, we have seen sooo many robots with telephone cables which are way underspec (26-28AWG)- and we spent some effort working around this problem - what's the proper way to point that out to inspectors?