G421      *Don’t collude with your partners to shut down major parts of game play. 2 or more ROBOTS that appear to a REFEREE to be working together may not isolate or close off any major element of MATCH play.

Violation: TECH FOUL, and for every 5 seconds in which the situation is not corrected, a TECH FOUL is assessed.

Examples of violations of this rule include, but are not limited to:

A.     shutting down access to all NOTES

B.     quarantining all opponents to a small area of the FIELD,

C.     blocking all access to the opponent’s SOURCE ZONE, and

D.     blocking all access to the opponent’s AMP.

A single ROBOT blocking access to a particular area of the FIELD is not a violation of this rule.

2 ROBOTS independently playing defense on 2 opponent ROBOTS is not a violation of this rule.