Blocking a robot driving clock-wise

[EricH]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

If you are talking about post hurdle and before they retract their arm. And by being behind them, you want keep them from being able to retract their arm.

I would say yes, this is legal (to a point) because they are no longer protected by the hurdling rule. But I would use caution in this strategy because of the excessive contact and possible severe damage to the hurdler may incur penalties for you. If do, please be gracious about it.

Someone suggested something like this in the YMTC thread about blocking hurdlers. The problems with this strategy are two: First, you risk a pinning penalty (and remember, it's six seconds before the penalty, as opposed to ten). Second, that won't affect some arm/lift robots, so you just wasted your time.