Answered: <SG9> and Unlisted Violations

[AlecMiller]

<SG9> Robots may not interfere with an opposing Alliance’s Building of Skyrise Sections in any way. The
following actions are all illegal.
a) Contacting an opponent’s Autoloader and/or contents. (See Figure 22)
b) Contacting an opponent’s Skyrise Base and/or Skyrise. (See Figure 23)
c) Contacting an opponent’s Alliance Starting Tile or the grey foam field tile between the two
Alliance Starting Tiles and located in the corner of the field. (See Figures 24-25)
d) Contacting an opponent’s Robot that is contacting the foam field tiles mentioned in c) and not
contacting any other foam field tiles. (See Figure 26)
e) Contacting any Scoring Objects that are contacting the foam field tiles mentioned in c) and
not contacting any other foam field tiles.
f) Depositing Scoring Objects in/on the opponent’s foam field tiles mentioned in c) or on Robots
or Scoring Objects touching said tiles.

In this Q&A, you stated that the list of illegal actions in <SG9> were meant as examples and not a complete list of actions which would violate <SG9>. At a recent tournament I saw something that, while not a violation of a-f, seemed like it might have violated <SG9>

A blue robot was attempting to build a Skyrise section when a red robot hit it, causing the blue robot to drop its Skyrise section. At the time of contact the blue robot was not completely in the blue protected area per <SG9d>, the blue robot was not touching the Skyrise so it was not indirect contact per <SG9b>, and the red robot never entered the protected area per <SG9c>. However, they definitely interfered with the opposing alliance’s building of a Skyrise section. Were the actions of the red robot in violation of <SG9>?

[Karthik]

@PYRObotics

A blue robot was attempting to build a Skyrise section when a red robot hit it, causing the blue robot to drop its Skyrise section. At the time of contact the blue robot was not completely in the blue protected area per <SG9d>, the blue robot was not touching the Skyrise so it was not indirect contact per <SG9b>, and the red robot never entered the protected area per <SG9c>. However, they definitely interfered with the opposing alliance’s building of a Skyrise section. Were the actions of the red robot in violation of <SG9>?

No, the red Robot was not in violation of <SG9>. Robots are allowed to contact opponent robots that are carrying Skyrise Sections, provided none of the specific clauses of <SG9> are violated.

[AlecMiller]

OK, thanks for the clarification

[Karthik]

@PYRObotics

OK, thanks for the clarification

You’re welcome.