What frisbees can be thrown over the feeder station walls in the last 30 seconds?

FIRST General Forum
1

G35:
“DISCS may be fed onto the FIELD only under the following circumstances:
A. during TELEOP through the FEEDER SLOTS for any DISCS and
B. during the last thirty (30) seconds of TELEOP over the FEEDER STATIONS for Red and Blue DISCS.”

Is this saying that only colored disks can be thrown over the feeder station walls in the last 30 seconds of the match or am I merely misreading the rules? If my interpretation is correct then teams that are unaware of this rule could be incurring fouls for every white disk they throw at the end of the round! There does not appear to be a Q&A about this, and I would be interested to hear how judges have been handling this at week 0 events.

2

Only colored disks can be thrown, no white disks. It was the because of week 0 that this rule was put in place, as the ‘blizzard’ of disk was unsafe for refs and spectators.

3

Previously, the rule permitted throwing white discs. It was as a result of the week 0 events that it was limited to the colored discs.

4

I guarantee you that at the drivers meeting on Thursday that they will bring this up to make sure everyone understands the changes.

5

Thanks a lot for the clarification guys! I thought that this would be an issue from the start but there could still be quite a few Frisbee related injuries this year…