1765: Opposing alliance tips onto horizontal elevation bar early in match : Robot Events

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1765: Opposing alliance tips onto horizontal elevation bar early in match

Pascal Chesnais (Event Partner)

13-Nov-2023

Early in a match Red tips falls onto blue horizontal elevation bar and is unable to able to free self from bar. Red is not contacting barrier bars, but passage on that side of field is block. Blue keeps playing match. Neither drives to try to elevate and active in game play one both sides of fields. Mid-way through last 30 seconds one Blue team points out red on horizontal bar.

How should this scenario play out?

Major violation to Red? DQ if match affecting?
Award one Blue highest elevation? Both?

Thank you for your insight!

SG11

Answered by committee

29-Nov-2023

In any case where a Robot is in contact with their opponent's Elevation Bars during the final 30 seconds of the Match, the Team should receive a Minor or Major Violation at the Head Referee's judgment based on the full context of the Match. It is impossible to issue a blanket answer beyond what is written in the Game Manual that encompasses all possible situations based on a snapshot description of a hypothetical Match.

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1765: Opposing alliance tips onto horizontal elevation bar early in match