How does 469 not violate <R19>?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by David Dawson

This "will" break the field

Interesting point. As field damage caused by a robot grasping field elements is always deemed the fault of said grasping robot. Even if caused by another robot colliding with said grasping robot.

Anyways, I'm man enough to say that I'm just plain jealous that they took this idea and made it work so well. We were briefly thinking about something like this, but missed some of the key refinements that make this work so well for them. Most particularly rolling the balls off the bumps to hurrying them along to the goals.

So, I'm having a difficult time coming up with a plan of attack against these guys. My only thoughts are a combination of denying them the tunnel for as long as possible and blocking and clearing balls as quickly as possible. This focuses 2 of your bots on defending this single bot, which isn't an obvious strategy for success in itself.

Relevant question I've posted to the Q&A however:
How does G37 impact 469's robot? G37 allows for outside the bumper contact with robots expanded outside their normal configuration and in the process of being elevated or suspended. 469 is clearly the former and clearly not the latter. Will a team be penalized and/or red carded for intentionally touching one of those chutes? This has bearing on many other robots that expand outside the normal perimeter but do not or cannot immediately begin elevating or suspending. We'll see what the GDC has to say. If anything.