[YMTC]: Assisting a CROSSING

[EricH]

Here's my personal opinion: Redabot1 is NOT interfering with a traverse attempt--they're ASSISTING it.

So:
Blueabot1, Blueabot2, Redabot2, and Redabot3: No fouls. (They aren't doing anything wrong. At least in this scenario.) Blueabot1 and Blueabot2 get 5 points apiece for Crossing.

Blueabot3: No foul. All he did was to get stuck in his own defense, and red stayed away by choice. (If they hit him, G43 per hit.) I'd say that G25 doesn't apply at all, as this isn't coordinated.

Redabot1: Eligible for 2x G43 fouls, due to bumping a robot trying to traverse one of their defenses on two occasions. However, as noted, this is an assist... and dare I say that blue boxes aren't part of the rules, but are meant to clarify rules? If Blueabots ended up taking a nosedive or two, sure, call fouls.


My personal opinion is that no foul gets called (the crossing points are the same as a foul on Red anyways) but the team gets a chat with the refs afterwards about "great job, but don't do that again". And somebody ought to slide a note to the blue polos about how Redateam1 is such a gracious professional that they should get an award...

However, I'd probably have to call those two G43s (and then see about that note).

Unfortunately for BigJ's T8 grump, I would guess that Redateam1 acted on their own...