<SG11><SG11> <SG11> protects mobile stakes in the positive corners during the last 15 seconds of a match. The Violation Notes on the rule states that Intentional, strategic, or egregious Violations will be considered Major Violations. During the last 15 seconds of a match, if a team tips over or removes a mobile goal from a protected corner but the score difference is not match affecting, is a major violation still warranted? Can it be assumed that both of these actions would fit the criteria of "intentional" or "strategic" and thus make this a major violation regardless of whether the action was match affecting?
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2179: <SG11> Major or Minor Violation Clarification
Answered by committee
In every case we can think of*, changing the score of a Protected Mobile Goal by tipping it over or removing it from the Corner will be part of an intentional, strategic, or egregious action. Per the Violation Note for <SG11>, these are automatically Major Violations and should result in a Disqualification. This note applies regardless of whether or not it is a Match Affecting Violation.
*We acknowledge that a Robot could, conceivably, accidentally tip over a precariously Placed Protected Mobile Goal through transitive or incidental contact that could result in the Mobile Goal no longer being Placed. In that and similar possibilities, the Violation probably isn't intentional or strategic. Have we seen it happen, or do we expect to? No.