Answered: Game Objects Leaving The Field

[m.dinh]

I read through the entire manual, but I didn’t see anything about throwing game objects off the field. Will this be penalized? If it’s legal, will the refs put them back on the field or just leave them like in Cleansweep?

[Rick_TYler]

<G8> Scoring Objects that leave the playing field will be promptly returned to the playing field at the location nearest the point at which they exited. Teams who intentionally remove Scoring Objects from the scoring field, while not in the process of scoring or descoring, will be Disqualified.

[Karthik]

I read through the entire manual, but I didn’t see anything about throwing game objects off the field. Will this be penalized? If it’s legal, will the refs put them back on the field or just leave them like in Cleansweep?

This is addressed by <G8> of the VEX Gateway Game Manual.

<G8> Scoring Objects that leave the playing field will be promptly returned to the playing field at the location nearest the point at which they exited. Teams who intentionally remove Scoring Objects from the scoring field, while not in the process of scoring or descoring, will be Disqualified.

Thus, teams who intentionally remove Scoring Objects from the field while not in the process of scoring or “descoring” will be Disqualified. Objects which are removed will be promptly returned.