My comments on shooters

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Woody1458

This is exactly my point. Because so many teams went with this approach FIRST might sacrafice a decision they would make normally due to not wanting to DQ a lot of teams.

I doubt it. Though not everyone likes their decisions, or games, the GDC is a smart group of people. They knew in advance when they made this game that people would shoot/launch the ball if they didn't put in a rule preventing it, and they didn't put in such a rule. This tells us that if they didn't outright want teams to shoot the ball, they at least weren't opposed to the idea.

If teams have unsafe robots of any kind--shooter, arm bots, herders, etc, I'm sure they will be handled as best as possible during inspection for things like pinch points, unsafe release of energy, etc, and through penalties/yellow/red cards by referees during gameplay.