OVERDRIVE Rules/Scoring Questions

[Ragnarokae]

Originally Posted by LordTalps

I might just be losing it today, but I don't like the phrase "scored trackball". Does the process of taking a trackball off of the overpass consider the trackball "scored"? Are the points being awarded because a trackball was taken off, or because your trackball was taken off? If the latter, I don't know how a team is going to make it around the corner of the wall, knock over the other ball without breaking the 6 foot height limit, and do it deterministically so they don't knock over the wrong ball on accident and give the other team 8 points. Seems incredibly hard to do, especially with other robots more than plausibly in the way.

Don't worry, you aren't losing it . Everyone has questions with these rules....

If the Blue Alliance removes a Red trackball from the overpass, the Red Alliance would get the 8 points (according to G08 and G09). If the Red Alliance removed one of their own trackballs, the Red Alliance would receive 8 points.

And yes, once a trackball is removed from the overpass it is considered scored (meaning the Alliance cannot receive the 8 points twice for the same ball).

I think that there is some strategy in this part. I agree that it is a stretch for one robot to get both balls down in the Hybrid phase. Thus, it should be a priority to get the points. If there are two robots that are able to remove the trackballs, one should go for the ball on their side, and the second should aim for the ball on the enemy's side.

Now I have a question of my own. During the Hybrid phase, could you remove the ball from the overpass before you cross the finish line and then hurdle the ball?