Suggestion to Fix Rules of Height, and Opposite TrackBall

[Bob Steele]

I agree that something needs to happen. I personally like the idea of the balls being in the scoring pass but there is a problem with that. The opposing team would not be able to descore them at the end... so a team with no hurdlers could get an automatic 24 points...just leave the balls there...
this would negate 3 hurdles from the other team... and then its a pure race...


You "might" be able to kick a ball out of someone's home zone overpass from underneath but that will be a nightmare for the referees.

If the rule actually means that if you reach "back" into the zone you are violating the six foot rule I see no good way for a robot to dislodge a ball from the opponents home zone. Crossing the plane of the zone would be considered "in" the zone therefore illegal. If one cannot contact the ball (it is at close to 6 feet) from either inside the zone or outside the zone the only alternative is to use the ball to do the removal. That will NOT happen in Hybrid...

Let's all wait and see what the GDC (Q and A) decide to say about this.

Other alternatives are:

No 6 foot rule during Hybrid....

Referees bump all balls down at the close of hybrid....

reaching back to bump a ball out is not considered an infringement of the 6 foot rule...

6 foot rule only applies from INSIDE the zone...

We shall see... I would expect this to be addressed pretty quickly...
perhaps even in the first update...