Stronghold potential chokehold?

[first_newbie]

Can a team choose to just stay in the opposing teams secret passage and block any balls from getting to that teams rpbots?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by first_newbie

Can a team choose to just stay in the opposing teams secret passage and block any balls from getting to that teams rpbots?

Possession of >1 isn't going to end well. And you can't score from there.

[mrgoldtech]

If you get touched by an opposing robot in the opposing secret passage, you get a foul

[EricH]

Originally Posted by mrgoldtech

If you get touched by an opposing robot in the opposing secret passage, you get a foul

Not necessarily. Are they contacting you, or are you contacting them?


As a different example: you and I are standing next to each other. One of us slaps the other on the back. Who did the contacting?

[first_newbie]

Originally Posted by mrgoldtech

If you get touched by an opposing robot in the opposing secret passage, you get a foul

Isn't that against g11 though

[EricH]

Originally Posted by first_newbie

Isn't that against g11 though

Under debate elsewhere.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by mrgoldtech

If you get touched by an opposing robot in the opposing secret passage, you get a foul

This depends on your definition of contact. There are two or three discussions on this currently happening over CD.

[pntbll1313]

G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not contact opposing ROBOTS.
Violation: TECH FOUL

There is nothing in this that states who must initiate the contact for it to be a foul.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by EricH

Under debate elsewhere.

For future reference, Eric is referring to this thread

[Kevin Sevcik]

Penalties aside, this still isn't a chokehold because your opponent can still score points for crossing, breaching, challenging and scaling. Plus all the boulders that start on the field. A chokehold is a strategy that guarantees success if you achieve it. If the opponent can't prevent you from doing X, then nothing else they do will matter because you'll win. And it really meant to refer to a single technical challenge.
Technically, a chokehold strategy would be, say, preventing them from accessing any boulders while breaching their defense and capturing their tower. But at that point your fool proof strategy is to win a match, which isn't informative.
The last real chokehold I recall was 2002. Keep all the goals off your side of the field and get atleast one on your opponent's side, and you won. That was a single technical feat achievable (just) by a single robot.

[IronicDeadBird]

If you physically block the balls from getting out on the field and have the balls stay on the driver side of the station you could backup the ball holding and force more then the cap of 5 or 6 balls or whatever in the station. This would fall under a strategy forced at making the other team receive fouls. At the same if you were parked against the wall and the human player put two balls into play you would be trapping them against the wall, this is a definition of controlling and you are only allowed to control one boulder at a time.
Pick your poison.

[rich2202]

You can't block balls from being introduced. That would be a G11 violation because of G34.

You can sit midway down the Secret Passage, and block balls from going all the way down. However, if the other team comes along, you better get out of the way.

[swaxman12345]

Originally Posted by pntbll1313

G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not contact opposing ROBOTS.
Violation: TECH FOUL

There is nothing in this that states who must initiate the contact for it to be a foul.

I don't have the manual on me but there's a rule that says if you try to give another team a penalty by your action, you get the foul and they don't get punished.

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by swaxman12345

I don't have the manual on me but there's a rule that says if you try to give another team a penalty by your action, you get the foul and they don't get punished.

G11: Strategies aimed solely at forcing the opposing ALLIANCE to violate a rule are not in the spirit of FIRST Robotics Competition and not allowed. Rule violations forced in this manner will not result in an assignment of a penalty to the targeted ALLIANCE.

Violation: FOUL. If egregious or repeated, YELLOW CARD

[asid61]

Originally Posted by rich2202

You can't block balls from being introduced. That would be a G11 violation because of G34.

You can sit midway down the Secret Passage, and block balls from going all the way down. However, if the other team comes along, you better get out of the way.

No, because they can still introduce balls through the Brattice. If those balls bounce off your robot, it's still legal as per a combo of the G38 blue box and G39 blue box. You can herd or trap balls while in the opponent's secret passage, and G38 says that if it just deflects off your robot it's not even considered possession.

In Quals this is only decent, as you may not have a shooter on your alliance, so the balls just deflect away from the opponent. But in Elims a shooter with intake could stand next to the chokehold robot and intake + shoot all of the balls deflected. They are also braced by at least 1 wall, so moving them would be extremely difficult.

This is a definite question for Q&A, as it would completely break play like 469 in 2010. The precedent for this is that 469 never technically controlled the ball in 2010. I figure if something as gregarious as that was let go, this would be allowed as well. In fact the robot would end up quite similar, thinking about it.

Making a robot like this would take a piece of polycarb and 30 minutes at competition, so I'm not too worried about doing it right now.