Boulder Starvation

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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I haven't tested any of these ideas yet, but if you accumulated balls at the end of your secret passage, and then assigned your third partner to stay near them to prevent your opponents from using your secret passage, it could theoretically slow down both your opponent's top scoring machines while only occupying your third robot.

(Your opponents can't cross from the neutral zone to your secret passage, that incurs penalties)

I'm very curious to see how these strategies shape up in the coming weeks, rather than in my theoretical math.

I would argue that this violates G38's definition of HERDING or TRAPPING, as you're creating a group of boulders in the secret passage with the intention of putting a robot there to guard them.