5.0 Violations and Deductions of Points
5.1 Once a game begins, the following actions will be regarded as violations and three (3) points will be deducted for each occurrence.
5.1.1 A violation occurs if a Manual machine touches Cheese or Pot placed in the opponent’s Basket intentionally.
5.1.2 A violation occurs when a Manual machine or its operator enters, or a portion of machine or operator extends into the air space inside Autonomous Area and opponent’s Autonomous machine start zone as well as the opponent’s Basket’s air space. The exception is Grey Square around the Girls where portion of machine can enter but not the operator’s.
5.1.3 A violation occurs when Manual machine or its operator or any part of them touches the floor of grey square.
5.1.4 A violation occurs when a Manual machine touches its opponent’s Autonomous machines.
5.1.5 Autonomous and/ or Manual machine cannot snatch the Butter Cube and/or Pot and/ or Cheese held by the opponent.
5.1.6 The act of intentionally dropping or changing the positions of butter cube, cheese, pot so that it becomes difficult for other team to score.
5.1.7 If above violations continue intentionally, three (3) points will be deducted for every five (5) seconds of duration of violation.
6.0 Disqualification
The following behaviors shall be considered for “disqualification of the team” by the referees for that particular match. 9 points will be deducted from the total score of the disqualified team for that match.
6.1 Causing or attempting to cause damage to the game field, the equipments on the field, or the opponent’s machines and the objects such as Cheese, Pot, Girls, Bowls and Butter.
6.2 Members of a team touching their own machines intentionally.
6.3 Manual machine or its operator intentionally blocking, touching or attacking the opponent’s Autonomous machine directly or / and indirectly.
6.4 Manual machine picks up or moves the opponent’s Pots and Cheese placed in the Basket intentionally.
6.5 More than one (1) False Start in a match (machines being started before the referee signals a start.)
6.6 Performing any act against the spirit of fair play and friendship between participating teams.
6.7 Persistently using the cable to guide or pull the Manual machine will lead to disqualification from the match.
6.8 Intentionally attacking the opponent’s Manual machine with own Manual machine will lead to disqualification.
6.9 The team that does not follow the instruction or warning of the Referee will lead to disqualification from the match.
6.10 Autonomous Machine entering the opponent’s Common Area or the space above it will lead to disqualification.
However if Autonomous machine moves or falls into the opponent's common zone by accident it should be removed immediately as per referee's instructions. (The referee is empowered to determine whether it is an accident or not.) Retry can be allowed after that.
6.11 Manual Machine or any part of it intentionally entering the opponent’s Common Area or the space above will lead to disqualification.
6.12 Three violations would lead to disqualification from that match.
