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145: Hoarding Resolution - Hoarding Definition and SG5


Ronald Lohse
15-Nov-2018

Hoarding is defined as placing two of more caps . . . in one of the four corners of the field and actively preventing your opponent from gaining access to them. If a team placed two caps between two flag towers, would that be a legal means of hoarding?

Answered by Game Design Committee

The definition of Hoarding is as follows:

Hoarding – A Robot status. A Robot is Hoarding if it is actively blocking opposing Robot access to more than two (2) Balls, or more than one (1) Cap, in any of the four (4) corners of the field (i.e. positioned in the corner roughly the size of one foam field tile).

The area between the Flags is not called out as a possible destination for Hoarding; therefore, placing two Caps between two Flag towers would not be considered Hoarding, and would be legal.