can there be agressive play?

[JudyVandy]

If I remember the usual rules correctly, a certain amount of what may be termed 'aggressive play' is permitted, as long as the intent is to prevent the other robot from scoring or to enable your robot to score points. This does include pinning, but only for a limited number of seconds. Pushing an opposing robot to keep it from scoring points is, likewise permitted. Wanton destruction of another robot is not permitted, which includes beating up on a robot when it's down. Pushing a downed robot out of your way so you could score points is something that could be subject to a referee's judgment.

[aaronbr28040]

The debate now is not really whether or not aggressive play is allowed but rather how much will be tolerated. It really isn't that important due to the fact that as long as you aren't deliberately breaking the rules or hurting another robot your team will not get any penalties. The refs do not throw penalties just to do it, they try not to but sometimes they are forced to by extremely aggressive play. Just go out there and play hard and always keep gracious professionalism in mind and you will be fine.

-Aaron