Blocking a robot driving clock-wise

[EricH]

Originally Posted by zivo123

GDC "There is no rule that would prohibit the blocking robot's action. There are also no rules that would prohibit an appropriate counter measure by your robot. This scenario would likely become a pushing match."

just to make sure i understood correctly- a pushing match means that we push each other and if i push him and manage to get a away good for me but if he pushes me and make me tip over? (not to mention i will be tipping over on him..) or even worse break some mechanism??

The GDC is right, as long as the robot that is doing the blocking isn't contacting the robot that is against the overpass. As soon as the blocking robot touches the other robot so it can't move, it's a pinning call.

If a robot intentionally tips another, they are given a Penalty, ranging up to a DQ.

Also, this discussion may be moot, because the arm robots probably have measures in place already to escape this. I'm pretty sure my team does--we've got two, or can easily have two given about ten minutes in the pits.