Answered: Match Affecting Clarification

[Connor]

The definition of match affecting states the following:

Match Affecting – A situation that results in a change of the winner and loser of a Match.

According to most rules, they state the following:

Minor violations of these rules that do not affect the Match will result in a warning. Match Affecting
offenses will result in a Disqualification. Teams that receive multiple warnings may also receive a
Disqualification at the Head Referee’s discretion.

In eliminations, If I were to do an illegal action such as tipping myself even incidentally, and it was match affecting against me and my own alliance, would me and my alliance be disqualified and earn zero points?
(By the way, most say this is obvious, but I still haven’t exactly heard of a ruling about this for this season)

[VEX_GDC]

Most rules that contain the Match Affecting verbiage explicitly refer to actions against opposing robots.

<SG4> A Robot may not Pin or Trap an opposing Robot…

<SG5> Robots may not intentionally or accidentally, indirectly or directly, remove Cones from an opponent’s Stack…

Your question specifically refers to tipping, which is covered by <G12>. <G12> does not include Match Affecting verbiage. It only refers to intentional, egregious, or repeated offenses.

Other than <G12>, tipping your own robot over to gain a strategic advantage via <SG14>, <SG7>, or any other rules would be considered a violation of those rules in their own right. Tipping over your own partner would be a fairly extreme circumstance, and could be considered a violation of <G12> and/or <G1>.

And as always…

<G2> When reading and applying the various rules in this document, please remember that common sense always applies in the VEX Robotics Competition.