Bumper Rules

[FrankJ]

One issue with a wedge is if your opposing robot tips over because of the wedge, it will be the referees judgement call on who, if anyone gets penalized. If it happens regularly regardless of who initializes contact, expect at the vary least a conversation.

While there is no rule specifically about blocking your team number, there is an expectation that your robot is easily identifiable by the referees

[Jon Stratis]

While I'm not a ref, I would call a defensive deployment of a wedge designed to tip opponents who hit me as a strategy designed to tip opponents. It doesn't matter if you're moving or not, such a wedge would specifically be designed to cause a tipping scenario during normal match gameplay. The big question is if the red would see that as an attempt by the opposing robot to force you into a foul. I think I'm going to bring this scenario up to the head ref I work with, see what he thinks.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

While I'm not a ref, I would call a defensive deployment of a wedge designed to tip opponents who hit me as a strategy designed to tip opponents. It doesn't matter if you're moving or not, such a wedge would specifically be designed to cause a tipping scenario during normal match gameplay. The big question is if the red would see that as an attempt by the opposing robot to force you into a foul. I think I'm going to bring this scenario up to the head ref I work with, see what he thinks.

As a ref...

I'd agree, at least provisionally. And as a strategy aimed at disabling opponents, I would see the cards stacking up quickly (it's a foul+yellow for the strategy, and a red if you actually knock somebody out). I wouldn't see it as an attempt to force into a foul, because that person is just trying to play defense (and, on a semi-related note, because you just rebuilt your robot to NOT cause a tip, on strong suggestion from the head ref that doing so lessens your card risk ).