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Intentionally placing triballs on the net SG3


Jacob Church
11-Jun-2023

<SG3> Keep Triballs in the field. Teams may not intentionally remove Triballs from the field. Although Triballs may accidentally leave the field, doing so intentionally or repeatedly would be a Violation of this rule. Triballs that leave the field during Match play, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will be returned to the field at a location nearest the point at which they exited. Referees will return the Triball to the field when it is deemed safe to do so, at the leisure of the referee.

Note: Triballs which come to rest on top of a Goal may be retrieved by a Drive Team Member from the Alliance Station adjacent to the Goal in question. The Triball is then considered a Match Load for the Alliance who retrieved the Triball. This momentary interaction is an exception to rule <G9>

Referring to the note:

  1. Is putting triballs on top of the net considered out of the field and therefore expressly forbidden. SG3 does state that you may add it to your matchloads but does not define this expressly as out of the field and therefore illegal
  2. If (1) is not the case may you intentionally put triballs on the net by your driver station: your opponents goal
  3. If (1) is not the case may you put triballs on top of the net by your opponents driver station: your goal
Answered by committee
23-Jun-2023

Thank you for your question! Because Triballs that come to rest on top of a Goal may be collected by the adjacent Alliance, intentionally placing Triballs on top of a Goal is an indirect but intentional means of removing Triballs from the field and a violation of rule <SG3>.