Defensive Strategy - cornering opponents ball

[FoleyEngineer]

As someone who's been on both sides of the pinning - having partners who pinned to help us and having to fight through pins, I wouldn't mind a modification to the rules - allow pinning for 10 seconds, and then force the bot to back off for say 3 feet and 3 seconds - just like last year. That way, they can't hold it forever but can slow things down.

My only other rule suggestion is to change the lane violation rule on the "end lanes" (not the overpass lanes) to NOT be a violation if you break the plane but only if your entire robot crosses back into the previous quadrant. That way, you could turn or move out of the way of another bot and as long as your entire robot didn't come back into the previous quadrant, you'd be fine. I think this would reduce those darned violations by a good 80% and everyone would be happy. The whole purpose was to keep people going clockwise and not be able to do tricky plane maneuvers around the finish line - both of which this would keep in effect.