Answered<SG9> Clarification on stopping a robot from getting to their protected area.

jacko · February 21, 2015, 1:15am

Hi Karthik,

<SG9> prohibits a robot from “interfering” with an opponents Skyrise building.

If a robot A were to leave its protected area before the Skyrise is completed 7 high (to get cubes, or score cubes on wall posts for example), would it be legal for an opposition Robot B to get in the way and stop Robot A from returning to the protected area and finish the build assuming no pinning or trapping rules were violated in the process? This could be done by Robot B driving between Robot A and Robot A’s protected zone for example.

Would this be considered interfering with the building of the Skyrise, or just considered legal defensive play?

<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.
Please note that both direct contact (e.g. Robot making contact) and indirect contact (e.g. Robot
contacting a Scoring Object that makes contact) are considered violations of the above listed clauses.
Minor violations of this rule that do not affect the match will result in a warning. Egregious (match
affecting) offenses will result in a Disqualification. Teams that receive multiple warnings may also receive
a Disqualification at the head referee’s discretion. (See Figures 22-26)

Thanks a bunch,
Jack

Karthik · February 23, 2015, 9:26am

This would not be considered a violation of <SG9>, it would be considered legal defensive play.

jacko · February 24, 2015, 3:48am

Thanks Karthik!

I appreciate the speedy reply

Karthik · February 24, 2015, 9:44am

You’re welcome!