Human Players Only?

[RoboCoder]

<G17> SMALL balls may only be SCORED by the HUMAN PLAYER’s direct throw.
<G19> If an alliance ROBOT assists any SMALL ball into either of their goals, the referee will throw a red
penalty flag and the alliance’s final score will be decreased by twice the value of that SMALL ball.

We were actually strongly considering this as a strategy. Re-reading the rules, I dont believe that this would be going with the spirit of the rules, as they pretty clearly satate that they want all the smalll balls scored to come from Human Player throws. Granted, I think this is an issue that deserves clarification from FIRST to confirm/deny this.

IF it is allowed, then first of all you'd have to have a high level of coordination with your alliance partner as far as timing goes, and fitting it within the 15 seconds would be.......tight, but ultimately it is possible. However, as mentioned before, I dont think that you would get too many this way.

Looking purely at rule G19, I can see how it could be argue either way reasonably well, but if you also consider G17, then I believe it makes it pretty clear that this is not allowed. *shrugs*

Here's another autonomous idea: the robot reaches up from the starting point and grabs purble balls from the big tray. Just an idea, but is it legal? Maybe first didn't think of it.

As far as this is concerned, I believe this would violate the spirit of the rules, and would ultimately go against the intentions of the game........ if FIRST wanted robots to reach high to get scoring balls, then they probably wouldnt have had them drop.

I honestly cant find a rule that really says one way or another. If it is congradulations for coming up with a really creative solution However, I would definately get clarification before I designed for this.