How penalty area's white line works?

[RootE]

I have a question for the rule: 1.7 Inside the Penalty Area.

Rule 1.7.1 says, “No robots are supposed to be fully inside the penalty area. As the penalty areas are marked with a white line, the Out of Bounds rule applies to this line as well. (Rule 1.9, Out of bounds)”, and Rule 1.9.1 says, “If a robot’s entire body moves out beyond the white line of the field, it will be called ~.”

It sounds like Rule 1.7 means “when judging ‘fully inside the penalty area’, the white line is exceptionally not a part of the penalty area, in order to lighten referee’s load.”

If there are any misunderstandings, please point them out.

[mareksuppa]

Hi @RootE ,

Thank you for the thoughtful question.

@RootE

It sounds like Rule 1.7 means “when judging ‘fully inside the penalty area’, the white line is exceptionally not a part of the penalty area, in order to lighten referee’s load.”

Your understanding is indeed correct, what “to this line” in Rule 1.7.1 referred to was the line that denotes the penalty area – the implications are exactly the same.

I do realize, thought, that this has the potential to bring out quite a bit of confusion and hence we’ll update it a bit to make it sound at least a bit more clear.

Thanks again for pointing this out and if you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask!