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Penalty on Redabot! 10 points for breaking the plane. 30 62.50%
Penalty on Bluabot! 10 points for impeding Redabot. 1 2.08%
Penalty on Redabot for breaking the plane AND Bluabot for impeding! 2 4.17%
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Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

Before I announce what appears to be my final YMTC of the 2007-2008 FIRST Robotics Competition season, I would like to personally and sincerely thank all those who were responsible for the creation of this year’s game: Overdrive. The game is exciting and fast-paced. Furthermore, the rules have been extremely well-written and have made it quite difficult to concoct contentious YMTCs. So
thank you 2008 GDC!
You Make The Call (YMTC) is a series of situations where you are the official and make the call.
Please reference specific rules when applicable. The results of YMTC are not official and are for educational purposes only.

Welcome to the inaugural Dogwood Regional! Bluateam worked hard all season to design and build Bluabot: a hard-nosed, defensive tank of a robot. When fully functional, Bluabot has dominated Dogwood’s top-scoring hurdlers with impenetrable ball-prevention defense. Unfortunately, the tank treads that have made Bluabot “un-pushable” have, on occasion, come off; thereby rendering Bluabot truly immobile.

Early in their final match on Friday afternoon, Bluabot is playing strong ball-prevention defense on top-seeded Redabot in the area of the lane-marker near the Blue Alliance Station when Bluabot’s right tread comes off! Not wanting to damage the carpet or draw a penalty for driving on metal track rollers or for impeding Redabot, Bluateam immediately presses the E-stop button. They can only watch as Redabot now has the opportunity to play offense unopposed for the remainder of the match.

But wait! Redabot is in a position exactly as illustrated in Team Update #15! Redabot has just crossed the lane-marker, but with no room to maneuver past Bluabot without breaking the plane and violating Rule <G22>. Hearing over the loudspeaker that Bluateam has disabled Bluabot using the E-stop button, Redateam tries to use Redabot to push Bluabot out of the way. But after 8 seconds of all-out pushing, Bluabot still won’t budge! Knowing that victory in the match depends on Redabot hurdling at least a few more times, Redabot throws it into reverse, breaks the plane of the lane-marker, and then drives forward around the motionless Bluabot to take the offensive.

The remainder of the match is carried out penalty-free. After the buzzer sounds, the refs huddle to determine what, if any, penalties ought to be enforced.


Based on the 2008 Rules, YOU MAKE THE CALL!
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Re: Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

It's still the responsiblity of the drivers of Redabot to avoid situations like the one described above, especially since Bluabot is considered field debris. I say penalty on Redabot.
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Re: Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

<G36> specifically says that disabled robots cannot receive penalties for IMPEDING, so Bluabot does not receive a penalty. Update #15 clarified a particular situation where IMPEDING could occur, but does not under any circumstances give Redabot a free pass to violate <G22>, even if Bluabot was active and determined to be IMPEDING. -10 for Redabot.
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Re: Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

<G23> No penalties.

Bluabot put Redabot into a situation where they had to take a penalty.
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Re: Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

what Joe Gannon said, exactly.
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Re: Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

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But after 8 seconds of all-out pushing, Bluabot still won’t budge! Knowing that victory in the match depends on Bluabot hurdling at least a few more times, Bluabot throws it into reverse, breaks the plane of the lane-marker, and then drives forward around the motionless Bluabot to take the offensive.

The remainder of the match is carried out penalty-free. After the buzzer sounds, the refs huddle to determine what, if any, penalties ought to be enforced.


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Nice try. You can't impede your alliance partner. (Not to mention, a disabled robot that is hurdling is quite a feat...)

No penalty, other than a standard <G22> violation.

(Now, if this were Redabot, probably none, or a <G22>.)
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<G36> specifically says that disabled robots cannot receive penalties for IMPEDING, so Bluabot does not receive a penalty. Update #15 clarified a particular situation where IMPEDING could occur, but does not under any circumstances give Redabot a free pass to violate <G22>, even if Bluabot was active and determined to be IMPEDING. -10 for Redabot.
<G36> specifically says that robots that are disabled after becoming incapacitated will not receive further penalties. Bluabot in this situation cannot be ruled incapacitated unless they try and move out of the way. You cannot receive protection under G36 because you are scared of receiving a penalty which doesn't exist. If they damage the field they will be disabled by the referee (no penalty). Until that decision is made or they have shown that they trully cannot move, then they must at least try and move out of the way.

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Similar result, different reason.
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<G36> specifically says that robots that are disabled after becoming incapacitated will not receive further penalties. Bluabot in this situation cannot be ruled incapacitated unless they try and move out of the way. You cannot receive protection under G36 because you are scared of receiving a penalty which doesn't exist. If they damage the field they will be disabled by the referee (no penalty). Until that decision is made or they have shown that they trully cannot move, then they must at least try and move out of the way.

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Derek, they've already disabled because they are incapacitated. They can't drive, pretty much. If they do try, the refs will disable them (instead of disabling themselves). No impeding call (there was a passing lane), no field damage call. Just a <G22> on the other alliance.

Then again, as I said before, it's a pretty good trick to have a robot that's disabled hurdling.
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Derek, they've already disabled because they are incapacitated. They can't drive, pretty much.
My argument is that they aren't incapacitated. As a referee you can't make that determination until they try to move. I have seen many robots move around with one tread. Heck, we've done it in the past. It didn't drive straight, but we would have been able to move out of the way.

As a referee, I couldn't see myself calling a penalty on red because blue's robot failed. With the rules as written, I can make a pretty good argument that there should be no penalty or one penalty each.
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My argument is that they aren't incapacitated. As a referee you can't make that determination until they try to move. I have seen many robots move around with one tread. Heck, we've done it in the past. It didn't drive straight, but we would have been able to move out of the way.

As a referee, I couldn't see myself calling a penalty on red because blue's robot failed. With the rules as written, I can make a pretty good argument that there should be no penalty or one penalty each.
Ah, OK.

Now, how do you call a penalty on Red in the scenario AS WRITTEN?
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Ah, OK.

Now, how do you call a penalty on Red in the scenario AS WRITTEN?
I can't, the scenario is written all wrong.
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Re: Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

I can't see anywhere in the rules where crossing the line is "forgiven". If the trapped Redabot wants to avoid a G22 penalty, perhaps they need some help from an alliance partner to push the disabled Bluabot out of the way.... or needed to design a machine with a bit more "push"...

G36 is pretty specific about this:

"ROBOTS that are disabled in this manner can not incur further PENALTIES (e.g. can not receive a PENALTY for IMPEDING). Disabled ROBOTS may be pushed out of the path of travel without PENALTY."

This means that it is clearly the intent of the GDC that robots be able to push disabled robots out of their way.

And thanks for making the effort to find the YMTC scenarios, however, here's an addendum to this one...

So what if one of Redabots' alliance partners pushed Bluabot backwards, thus pushing Redabot backwards over the line? G23 comes into play... Does Bluabot still count as an "opposing robot"? Does being disabled and pushed count as an "action"? Bluabot can't get any further penalties (and wouldn't even if they were still active, as they are being pushed), but does Redabot get a G22 penalty in this case?

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I can't see anywhere in the rules where crossing the line is "forgiven".

<G23> can cause a penalty to be "excused" if the opposing alliance causes he penalty to happen. I could argue that red wouldn't have taken a penalty if blue hadn't lost a tread and therefore blue caused red to take a penalty.

I prefer the other argument better. It's more interesting.

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"ROBOTS that are disabled in this manner can not incur further PENALTIES."
The "in this manner" portion of this rule is referencing the line before that says the robot was disabled after being incapacitated. My argument is that the referee cannot know that they are truly incapacitated unless they at least make an attempt to move out of the way.
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Bluabot put Redabot into a situation where they had to take a penalty.
I think you may be misreading <G23>. Look at the examples again to understand what "cause an opposing ROBOT to break a rule" means. Pushing an opposing robot backwards over a line would not trigger a <G22> penalty, per <G23>. Stopping in front of an opposing robot, who then backs up over the line under their own power to go around, would be a violation of <G22>. That was something to learn from Update #15... you don't get a free pass to break <G22> just because somebody stopped in front of you. In any case, you are certainly not forced to take a penalty, as you have the option to just sit still, or wait for Redabot2 to come help you push Bluabot out of the way. <G23> is about being forced into a penalty situation (such as being pushed backwards over a line, or having a trackball placed onto you), not about taking a penalty fully under your own power in order to get more points.

I think that this whole thing stinks for Redabot, but because there is no leeway in the rules, that's how it would have to be called.
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<G23> can cause a penalty to be "excused" if the opposing alliance causes he penalty to happen. I could argue that red wouldn't have taken a penalty if blue hadn't lost a tread and therefore blue caused red to take a penalty.

I prefer the other argument better. It's more interesting.



The "in this manner" portion of this rule is referencing the line before that says the robot was disabled after being incapacitated. My argument is that the referee cannot know that they are truly incapacitated unless they at least make an attempt to move out of the way.
I appreciate the first argument, and contemplated it while formulating my initial response. I feel that Bluabot did not cause Redabot to cross the line, but rather placed it in a situation where it was forced with the choice of crossing the line or remaining immobile.... or having an alliance partner assist in moving Bluabot. In no case, however, did Bluabot cause Redabot to incur a G22 penalty.

The second argument, I agree, bears perhaps a bit more weight in that the definition of "incapacitated" and who makes the determination of incapacitated is not specific. It does not, however, require a referee to make the decision that a robot is incapacitated. Rather it infers that the decision is up to the team by stating that the disablement must come through the pushing of the E-Stop in the player station. Secondly, when it states "robots that are disabled in this manner", I believe there is room to argue that "in this manner" refers simply to the pushing of the E-Stop button.

I always figure it is a good YMTC when experienced FIRSTers can interpret the same situation in different ways. I see your points and would... if I were in Redabot's shoes, put forward the same ones.

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