Referee Overview - FTC "Power Play" - Bob and Sid - Florida FIRST Tech Challenge

Join head referees Bob and Sid as they provide a breakdown of the key rules and potential penalties in the 2022-2023 Florida FTC Game "Power Play."

[@leolin1911]

This video was helpful, but I still have two questions:
1) When placing the cone down in the substation, is any orientation fine as long as it's touching or behind the tape, for example if most of the cone is outside except 1cm is touching the tape it's fine?
2) Are you allowed to hold the junction poles to stabilize it while placing cones, and to what extent?
(e.g. full-on grabbing with a claw is disallowed, but what about stabilizing the pole with a U bracket)?
And what's the difference between grasping and simply bracing?
I couldn't find anything specific in the game manual related to these

[@johnzhu9027]

Good guideline! One question: in autonomous red/blue teams' 5 Cone stacks are preplaced too close in the field (only 23" away). If opposite teams accidently (or intentionally for defense purpose) drive to close to your Cone stacks (it often happened in autonomous) and block you to intake those Cone stacks (collisions will be easy to happen and damage the robots), are there any penalties? If no penalties, it will be almost impossible to score those 5 Cone stacks in real games. No teams want to take the risks to damage the robot. I didn't see this case was covered in the manual.

[@hellothere899]

Missouri ref here: through the middle of the field there is an understood "auto interference line". In general, teams keep their autos to their side. The caveat to this this year is that "interactions at the center line junctions will not be considered interference" per gs3.