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Official Q&A: VEX V5 Robotics Competition 2024-2025: High Stakes

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2059: Wall Stake Descoring Legality


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9-Jul-2024

<SG4> Per <Sg4>, "Teams may not intentionally or strategically remove Scoring Objects from the field." Obviously, this applies to putting Mobile Goals and Rings out of the field intentionally.

However, when descoring Wall Stakes, it is hard to properly control the landing of Rings, especially without violating double possession per <Sg6> and prior Q and As.

Because <Sg4> includes talks about not strategically removing Scoring Objects from the field and also stated "Any Team that removes three (3) or more Rings from the Field in a single Match will receive a Major Violation," does that mean if a team goes to descore a Wall Stake and has 3 or more Rings land outside the field, they are dqed? Or, to provide another scenario, if a team has 2 Rings land outside the field once when descoring a Wall Stake and later has 1 Ring land outside the field when descoring a Wall Stake, is that also a dq?

Furthermore, <Sg4> says "After a Team’s third Violation of this rule (either Major or Minor), all subsequent Violations of this rule will immediately escalate to a Major Violation," which begs the question if a team when descoring Wall Stakes has 3 Rings land outside the field during the entire tournament, does the fourth lead to a dq?

I ask this question again because descoring a Wall Stake while keeping all the Rings in the field is extremely difficult meaning if this is the case, it would largely de incentivize teams from descoring Wall Stakes in the first place because of the risk of a dq, making them essentially "protected" to whoever got there first.

Thank you.

Answered by committee
19-Jul-2024

... does that mean if a team goes to descore a Wall Stake and has 3 or more Rings land outside the field, they are dqed?

Yes.

... if a team has 2 Rings land outside the field once when descoring a Wall Stake and later has 1 Ring land outside the field when descoring a Wall Stake, is that also a dq?

Yes.

... if a team when descoring Wall Stakes has 3 Rings land outside the field during the entire tournament, does the fourth lead to a dq?

Yes.

All of these scenarios and penalties are described in the Violation Notes for rule <SG4>.