YMTC: Redabot Knocks Tetra Into Arena

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Natchez

[i]Redabot, without being in the loading zone, dislodges a red tetra from the auto-loader that falls onto the playing field. The ref immediately spikes a flag into the ground indicating a 10-point penalty on Redabot. Redabot's alliance partner, Redabilly, picks up the previously-dislodged-red-tetra and scores the tetra on the center goal. The buzzer sounds and the center goal has the red tetra on top of a blue tetra with no robots touching the tetras.(...)YOU MAKE THE CALL!

I just know I'm getting sucked into something here...

The rules say that a robot must be in the LOADING ZONE to load a new tetra. There is a 10-point penalty for touching a tetra from outside the loading zone. The rules are silent on the "legal" status of that tetra. In your scenario, since the rules don't say that the tetra is now "illegal," I'm going to say that the tetra scores as usual.